Psychiatric Disability and Employment: I.Survey of 222 Registered Disabled Persons

From Social Structure to Social Behaviour in Britain after the Second World War

“…Markowe et al concluded that even when these individuals regained employment their personality traits soon led them again into unemployment. 92 The investigation of the psychosomatic nature of disease and the role of stress in the aetiology of the diseases of modern life increasingly preoccupied the pages of the British Journal by the middle of the 1950s. Even the Review and Abstracts sections began to pay greater attention to issues such as The Relation of Stressful Life Situations to the Concentration of Ketone Bodies in the Blood of Diabetic and Nondiabetic Humans a study completed by Hinkle, Conger and Wolf in 1950 published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.…”

In pursuit of "the welfare trait": recycling deprivation and reproducing depravation in historical context

“…As a psychiatrist trained in Manchester, Lawton studied the problem of maladjustment as the cause of unemployment in men (Markowe et al, 1955a(Markowe et al, , 1955bHall and Tonge, 1963) and the incidence of neuroses among women (Tonge et al, 1961). 9 Here Tonge was part of a wider trend which interpreted improper adjustment to modern society as something within the individual and reflected in 'symptoms' evident to the expert.…”