Mental Disorders in Urban Areas. An Ecological Study of Schhizophrenia and Other Psychoses

Myerson, Abraham

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“…As early critics of Fails and Dunham argued, however, downward social drift of previously ill persons could plausibly explain the concentration of cases in the slums of Chicago (e.g., Myerson, 1940). Nor does a finding in the New Haven study that most lower-class cases of psychopathology had originated in that class rather than having drifted down to it resolve the problem.…”

Section: The Social Causation-social Selection Issuementioning

confidence: 97%

The 1980 division 27 award for distinguished contributions to community psychology and community mental health: Barbara Snell Dohrenwend and Bruce P. Dohrenwend

Dohrenwend¹,

Zubin²,

Levav³

1981

American J of Comm Psychol

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Section: The Social Causation-social Selection Issuementioning

confidence: 97%

The 1980 division 27 award for distinguished contributions to community psychology and community mental health: Barbara Snell Dohrenwend and Bruce P. Dohrenwend

Dohrenwend¹,

Zubin²,

Levav³

1981

American J of Comm Psychol

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“…This model resembles supplemental eFigure 3 presented by Lewis et al Religion is one of the oldest social and cultural systems known to mankind and has profoundly shaped social institutions in the US. [1][2][3][4] Social scientists during the early 20th century intimated that religion can have implications for health. In addition, social gerontology was the first field of inquiry to systematically examine associations between these rich concepts.…”

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confidence: 99%

A Multilevel Mediational Model of the Association of Neighborhood Deprivation With Risk for Nonaffective Psychosis

Kendler

2020

JAMA Psychiatry

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disturbance continues for at least 2 years in adults but only 1 year in children. Age further defines different subtypes of dysthymia, based on whether the onset is early (before age 21 years) or late (after age 21 years). These differences in age at onset and time course are fairly arbitrary, but they emphasize the importance of age when making a diagnosis.Of particular relevance in the context of the study is the onset specifier. This specifier was in large part the result of studies conducted by Akiskal, 5 who proposed that early-onset dysthymia is a low-grade characterological form of depression that develops gradually, whereas late-life dysthymia is an acute and more severe form of the disorder.Although the early-onset vs late-onset specifier was not included for major depressive disorder, it has been suggested that a similar distinction should also be made for this disorder. 6 Accordingly, early-onset chronic major depression might be a more severe form and associated with greater comorbidities than the late-onset subtype. This would explain why treat-ments are less effective in early-onset subtype of the disorder and therefore also in children and adolescents.It is unclear why age appears to distinguish different forms of depressive states. It is quite possible that hormonal changes, and especially the influence of estrogen and testosterone on brain function and development among girls around puberty, might explain some of the results. 7 Other possible explanations might be associated with the physical changes that occur during sexual maturity and the associated social conflicts and stress around gender roles. 3 Whatever the reason, age (and sex) is a critical factor that needs to be considered for the diagnosis and treatment of depression. It is quite possible that we are dealing with different disorders, depending on the age and sex of the patient. 8 Therefore, the same treatment might not be equally effective for all individuals at all ages. This questions the idea that depression is a monolithic entity and supports the call for a paradigm shift toward precision medicine in psychiatry.

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“…Faris and Dunham's ‘ecological study’ received some positive attention from the mental health establishment: ‘the psychiatrist who is eager for the advancement of psychiatry will make this book a part of his library’, noted a reviewer in the American Journal of Psychiatry ‘and will welcome these sociologists and the discipline they represent as his allies’ (Myerson : 997). Some enthusiastic follow‐up studies appeared – notably, the work of Hare () in Bristol, and Schroeder () in five other American cities.…”

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Revitalizing sociology: urban life and mental illness between history and the present

Fitzgerald

Rose

Singh

2016

British Journal of Sociology

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This paper proposes a re-thinking of the relationship between sociology and the biological sciences. Tracing lines of connection between the history of sociology and the contemporary landscape of biology, the paper argues for a refiguration of this relationship beyond popular rhetorics of 'biologization' or 'medicalization.' At the heart of the paper is a claim that, today, there are some potent new frames for re-imagining the traffic between sociological and biological research -even for 'revitalizing' the sociological enterprise as such. The paper threads this argument through one empirical case: the relationship between urban life and mental illness. In its first section, it shows how this relationship enlivened both early psychiatric epidemiology, and some forms of the new discipline of sociology; it then traces the historical division of these sciences, as the sociological investment in psychiatric questions waned, and 'the social' become marginalized within an increasingly 'biological' psychiatry. In its third section, however, the paper shows how this relationship has lately been revivified, but now by a nuanced epigenetic and neurobiological attention to the links between mental health and urban life. What role can sociology play here? In its final section, the paper shows how this older sociology, with its lively interest in the psychiatric and neurobiological vicissitudes of urban social life, can be our guide in helping to identify intersections between sociological and biological attention. With a new century now underway, the paper concludes by suggesting that the relationship between urban life and mental illness may prove a core testing-ground for a 're-vitalized' sociology.1

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Mental Disorders in Urban Areas. An Ecological Study of Schhizophrenia and Other Psychoses

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The 1980 division 27 award for distinguished contributions to community psychology and community mental health: Barbara Snell Dohrenwend and Bruce P. Dohrenwend

The 1980 division 27 award for distinguished contributions to community psychology and community mental health: Barbara Snell Dohrenwend and Bruce P. Dohrenwend

A Multilevel Mediational Model of the Association of Neighborhood Deprivation With Risk for Nonaffective Psychosis

Revitalizing sociology: urban life and mental illness between history and the present

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