The MRC social psychiatry unit and the world of social psychiatry / P.E. Bebbington -- Social psychiatry / J.K. Wing -- Researching the idea of health / D. Mechanic -- Aetiology of depression : something of the future? / G.W. Brown -- Elective affinities in schizophrenia and childhood autism / C.D. Frith and Uta Frith -- Cognitive perspectives and social psychiatry / C.R. Brewin -- Mental retardation and the autistic continuum / Lorna Wing -- Measuring and classifying clinical disorders : learning from the PSE / J.K. Wing -- The measurement of need / S. Mangen and C.R. Brewin -- Social behavior and psychiatric disorders / Til Wykes and Jane Hurry -- Studies of residential developments : lessons from the past and pointers to the future / I. Sinclair and R.V. Clarke
Transcultural psychiatry : a question of interpretation / R. Geil -- The relevance of psychosocial risk factors for treatment and prevention / J.P. Leff -- The epidemiology of affective disorders / P.E. Bebbington -- Parental loss in childhood : its effect in adult life / C. Tennant -- Psychiatric case registers as tools for scientific investigation / H. Häfner - The evaluation of reprovision for psychiatric hospitals / J.P. Leff -- Closing Darenth Park hospital for adults with mental handicaps / Lorna Wing -- Maintenance medication for schizophrenia : changing perspectives on use and evaluation / S. Hirsch -- Applying clinical research in practice : meeting the needs of long-term patients and their carers / Liz Kuipers
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Discusses social psychiatry within the context of the work of the Medical Research Council Social Psychiatry Unit