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Tables of Contents for Sociology of Mental Disorder
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
The Problem of Mental Disorder
1
28
Defining Mental Disorder
3
1
Madness through the Ages
4
24
Summary
28
1
Types of Mental Disorders
29
29
Disorders Usually First Diagnosed in Infancy, Childhood, or Adolescence
30
1
Delirium, Dementia, and Amnestic and Other Cognitive Disorders
31
1
Mental Disorders Due to a General Medical Condition Not Elsewhere Classified
31
9
Substance-Related Disorders
40
2
Schizophrenia
42
4
Mood Disorders
46
3
Anxiety Disorders
49
3
Somatoform Disorders
52
1
Factitious Disorders
52
1
Dissociative Disorders
52
1
Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders
53
1
Eating Disorders
54
1
Sleep Disorders
55
1
Impulse-Control Disorders Not Elsewhere Classified
55
1
Adjustment Disorders
55
1
Personality Disorders
55
2
Summary
57
1
Mental Disorder: Concepts of Causes and Cures
58
37
The Medical Model
58
9
The Psychoanalytic Model
67
8
The Social Learning Model (Behavior Modification)
75
1
The Social Stress Model
76
13
The Antipsychiatric Model
89
4
Summary
93
2
Mental Disorder as Deviant Behavior
95
32
Macro-Level Approaches to Mentally Deviant Behavior
97
14
Micro-Level Approaches to Mentally Deviant Behavior
111
15
Summary
126
1
Mental Disorder: Social Epidemiology
127
11
Epidemiological Methods
127
6
The ``True'' Prevalence of Mental Disorder
133
4
Summary
137
1
Mental Disorder: Social Class
138
18
The Classic Studies
138
10
Explanations of the Relationship
148
5
Summary
153
3
Mental Disorder: Age, Gender, and Marital Status
156
24
Age
156
6
Gender
162
15
Marital Status
177
2
Summary
179
1
Mental Disorder: Urban versus Rural Living and Migration
180
10
Urban versus Rural Living
180
6
Migration
186
2
Summary
188
2
Mental Disorder: Race
190
21
Differences between Racial Minority Groups
194
6
Minority Status and Self-Esteem
200
3
Urban Black Folk Healers
203
3
The Curanderos
206
3
Summary
209
2
Help-Seeking Behavior and the Prepatient Experience
211
11
The Decision to Seek Treatment
211
5
Family Disruption
216
3
Family Alienation
219
1
Public Disruption
220
1
Summary
221
1
Acting Mentally Disordered: The Example of Schizophrenia, Anxiety, and Depression
222
25
Alienation from ``Place,''
224
7
Recognizing Symptoms
231
3
Madness as a Method of Coping
234
4
The Definitive Outburst
238
3
Rendering of Accounts
241
2
The Paradox of Normalcy
243
1
Removal from ``Place,''
243
3
Summary
246
1
The Mental Hospital Patient
247
24
Voluntary Commitment
248
4
Involuntary Commitment
252
3
The Inpatient
255
14
Summary
269
2
Residing in the Community
271
15
Stigma
271
1
Family Responses to Current and Former Mental Patients
272
2
Community Responses to Current and Former Mental Patients
274
7
Adjustment to the Outside World
281
4
Summary
285
1
Community Care and Public Policy
286
20
Delivery of Mental Health Services
286
3
The Changing Focus of Mental Health Care Delivery
289
1
Community Mental Health Centers
290
12
Delivery of Mental Health Services in the United States: An Appraisal
302
2
Summary
304
2
Mental Disorder and the Law
306
27
The Concept of Dangerousness
307
13
False Commitment
320
3
Insanity as a Defense in a Criminal Trial
323
4
The Right to Treatment
327
3
Mental Health Law and Social Control
330
2
Summary
332
1
Mental Disorder and Public Policy in Selected Countries
333
16
Great Britain
333
2
Italy
335
3
Germany
338
2
China
340
2
Japan
342
3
Poland
345
2
Summary
347
2
References
349
32
Name Index
381
6
Subject Index
387