THE INCIDENCE OF MENTAL DISORDER

Intimate partner violence and incidence of common mental disorder

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association of intimate partner violence against women reported in the last 12 months and seven years with the incidence of common mental disorders. METHODS A prospective cohort study with 390 women from 18 to 49 years, registered in the Family Health Program of the city of Recife, State of Pernambuco; from July 2013 to December 2014. The Self Reporting Questionna...

The Sociology of Mental Disorder

Aimez-vous Brahms? Aimez-vous le structuralisme? The half-jibing stereotype of the Frenchman as the great lover is as true in the intellectual sphere as any other and perhaps even more so. After the long affair with existentialism, now the almost obsessional concern with structuralism. But this is a brave book, an honest, uneasy and unassuming book. There are three clearly defined sections. The...

The Problem of Mental Disorder

stantly discovering new measures and medicaments for preventing and relieving many of the graver ills of the body, no like agency is successfully coping with the mentally disordered in public and private institutions for the insane and in the open life of the community. They realised that nearly every hospitalised patient means a disturbed and disorganised family and were conscious of the magni...

The Concept of Mental Disorder

Mental Health and Mental Disorder

Mental Health and Mental Disorder. Edited by Arnold M. Rose. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 40s. The emergence of group methods in the treatment of mental illness in this country is still regarded with some suspicion by many workers in the mental health field. There is a tendency to consider the treatment of numbers of patients at the same time as a second best, though most people agree that the sho...