Development of the sociology of mental disorders: An overview

Abstract

In the introduction the social character of mental disorders is discussed. In the second part the contribution of individual authors and their works to the development of sociology of mental disorders in European countries and the USA is described, with special emphasis on the sociogenesis of mental disorders. There follows an overview of the theories of Comte, Durkheim Halbwachs, Meyer and Eliot, Goffman, Parsons, Foucault, as well as representatives of anti-psychiatry (Laing, Basaglia and Szasz) and Freudo-Marxists (Reich, Fromm etc), to contemporary authors of relevant textbooks (Gallagher, Eaton, Cocherham etc). The study of the sociology of mental disorders in Serbia is briefly sketched

Effect of systemic therapy on alcoholics family resilience

“…Svi ovi oblici porodične terapije alkoholizma potekli su iz pokušaja prilagođavanja grupne psihoterapije (Opalić, 1996), odnosno, porodične terapije, tretmanu alkoholizma i pokazali su dobre rezultate. Zajedničko im je bilo što su provođene u kliničkim uslovima, sa malim brojem porodica, uz veliku posvećenost i motivaciju istraživača -terapeuta.…”