The decline of industrial psychiatry

Murphy, H. B. M.

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“…The difficulties of obtaining access to industries for psychiatric research are well known (Murphy, 1973). They were enhanced by the methodological…”

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Minor psychiatric morbidity in employed men and women and its contribution to sickness absence

Jenkins¹

1980

Psychol. Med.

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SYNOPSISA pilot study is described on 41 men and women of similar age, social and educational backgrounds, in 2 working environments. The use of psychiatric interviews in such occupational settings is demonstrated to be acceptable to both management and employees. Preliminary coefficients of validity for the General Health Questionnaire are found to compare favourably with those in clinical or community settings. Though the prevalence of minor psychiatric morbidity in these small samples did not differ between the sexes, the women had twice as many spells of absence as the men. Considering women separately, minor psychiatric morbidity was found to be significantly correlated with absence. However, psychiatric illness was a less important predictor of absence in men.

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“…The difficulties of obtaining access to industries for psychiatric research are well known (Murphy, 1973). They were enhanced by the methodological…”

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confidence: 99%

Minor psychiatric morbidity in employed men and women and its contribution to sickness absence

Jenkins¹

1980

Psychol. Med.

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“…Unfortunately, psychiatric disability caused by occupational factors has not proved so readily investigated; indeed 'industrial psychiatry', once SO potentially fruitful (Lewis, 1942;Markowe, 1953), has all but disappeared as a speciality (Murphy, 1973). The particular difficulties of nosology and case definition in epidemiological studies, which have received so much attention in the psychiatric literature (for example Kendall, 1976), are probably central to this decline by making psychiatric diagosis apparently more 'imprecise' than organic diagnosis.…”

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Do organic solvents ‘cause’ dementia?

O'Flynn

1988

Int J Geriat Psychiatry

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Organic solvents have a wide range of adverse effects on cerebral functioning: the acute narcotic consequences of ingestion are well recognized and have been used to produce intoxication for thousands of years. A minority of such chemicals are proven neurotoxins and are hazardous even in low concentration. Since the late 1960s concern has been expressed that working men exposed to low levels of solvents, for example painters using oil‐based products or white spirit, consistently develop varieties of psychological illness which in their severest form have been described as a ‘dementia’. An examination of the literature, however, suggests that whatever long‐term adverse effects solvents may have, they do not appear to be characteristic, in either presentation or course, of dementing illnesses.

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“…An academic framework supported this: the Medical Research Council in the United Kingdom founded no less than three units devoted to industrial psychiatry alone. 2 By the early 1970s this promise had proved false: although the reasons are obscure, Murphy in his sad review, "The decline of industrial psychiatry" described how the institutional organisation decayed as psychiatric interest moved to other areas and suspicion grew within occupational medicine. It was, as he writes, "hard ... to avoid the conclusion that relations between psychiatry and industry have deteriorated instead of improving ... a clear opportunity for primary prevention has been lost.…”

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Psychiatric research in occupational medicine: the future of an illusion?

O'Flynn¹

1988

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

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The decline of industrial psychiatry

Cited by 5 publications

References 6 publications

Minor psychiatric morbidity in employed men and women and its contribution to sickness absence

Minor psychiatric morbidity in employed men and women and its contribution to sickness absence

Do organic solvents ‘cause’ dementia?

Psychiatric research in occupational medicine: the future of an illusion?

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