Abstract:Mervyn Susser's contributions to community psychiatry from 1957-1968 comprised a creative and significant phase of his career, though less well known than his other work. This included work in Salford, a town next to Manchester, where he developed a programme to improve community health (including mental health care), as well as a programme of research on mental disorders. The publication of his book, Community Psychiatry: Epidemiologic and Social Themes (1968) attempted to set the stage for the practice of ps… Show more
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