The Global Relevance of Social Links with Mental Health, from a Luminary in Social Psychiatry

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Nitin Gupta ◽  
Debasish Basu
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Psychiatry

Social Psychiatry and Sociology of Mental Health: A View on Their Past and Future Relevance

1992 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerzy Krupinski
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Psychiatric Morbidity ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Social Psychiatry ◽  
Epidemiological Methods ◽  
World War ◽  
Urban Decay

The origins of social psychiatry can be traced to the age of enlightenment and to the effects of the industrial revolution. Social psychiatry deals with social factors associated with psychiatric morbidity, social effects of mental illness, psycho-social disorders and social approaches to psychiatric care. Since the end of World War II up to the early seventies it has been claimed that social psychiatry should concentrate on the fight against war, poverty, racial discrimination, urban decay and all other social ills affecting people's mental health, and that the psychiatrist should be responsible for the mental health of the society. In contrast, sociology of mental health questioned the expertise of the psychiatrist and the very existence of mental illness, claiming that it covers deviant behaviour rejected by the society. The paper refutes this approach indicating that not the existence but the perception and presentation of psychiatric illness are socially determined. Acknowledging the contribution of sociology and social sciences to psychiatry, it is suggested that the heroic period of social psychiatry and the iconoclastic approach of sociology of mental health are over. However, social psychiatry, enriched by the use of epidemiological methods, has still much to offer to the daily practice of psychiatry.

Rethinking mental health in Romania – the role of social psychiatry

Psihiatru ro ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (49) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandru Paziuc ◽  
Lucian Paziuc
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Psychiatry

scholarly journals Between Institutional Psychiatry and Mental Health Care: Social Psychiatry in The Netherlands, 1916–2000

2004 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 413-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Oosterhuis
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Social Psychiatry ◽  
Narrow Sense ◽  
After Care ◽  
The Social ◽  
Institutional Psychiatry

The term “social psychiatry” became current in the Netherlands from the late 1920s. Its meaning was imprecise. In a general way, the term referred to psychiatric approaches of mental illness that focused on its social origins and backgrounds. In this broad interpretation social psychiatry was connected to the psycho-hygienic goal of preventing mental disorders, but also to epidemiological research on the distribution of mental illness among the population at large. The treatment called “active therapy”, introduced in Dutch mental asylums in the 1920s and geared towards the social rehabilitation of the mentally ill (especially through work), was also linked with social psychiatry. In a more narrow sense social psychiatry indicated what before the 1960s was usually called “after-care” and “pre-care”: forms of medical and social assistance for patients who had been discharged from the mental asylum or who had not yet been institutionalized. This article focuses on the twentieth-century development of Dutch social psychiatry in this more narrow sense, without, however, losing sight of its wider context: on the one hand institutional psychiatry for the insane and on the other the mental hygiene movement and several outpatient mental health facilities, which targeted a variety of groups with psychosocial and behavioural problems. In fact, the vacillating position of pre- and after-care services was again and again determined by developments in these adjacent psychiatric and mental health care domains. This overview is chronologically divided into three periods: the period between and during the two world wars, when psychiatric pre- and aftercare came into being; the post-Second World War era until 1982, when the Social-Psychiatric Services expanded and professionalized; and the 1980s and 1990s, when they became integrated in community mental health centres.

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