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Mental Hygiene and Socio‐Environmental Factors
Author(s) -
FELIX R.H.,
BOWERS R.V.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
the milbank quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.563
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1468-0009
pISSN - 0887-378X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0009.2005.00395.x
Subject(s) - seriousness , mental health , context (archaeology) , relevance (law) , mental illness , psychology , psychiatry , medicine , political science , paleontology , law , biology
The subject of this paper is one that has come increasingly and compellingly to the attention of psychiatrists and other students of human behavior in recent years. The impact of the social environment on the life history, and the relevance of the life history to mental illness, are no longer in serious question as clinical and research findings. But, even though we have come a considerable distance in our systematic understanding of the symptomology and psychodynamics of mental disorders, such understanding does not extend to any extent the role played by socio-environmental factors.