Open AccessDELIGITIMIZATION OF MENTAL HEALTH MYTHS OF NEW REMOTE MINING COMMUNITIES IN AUSTRALIA
Author(s) -
Neil C. C.,
Brealey T. B.,
Jones J. A.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
community health studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.946
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1753-6405
pISSN - 0314-9021
DOI - 10.1111/j.1753-6405.1983.tb00390.x
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , mental health , disturbance (geology) , mythology , empirical research , geography , mental illness , environmental planning , psychology , history , psychiatry , archaeology , geology , paleontology , philosophy , epistemology , classics
This paper uses existing empirical data to test current hypotheses concerning social correlates of mental disturbance in new remote mining towns in the Pilbara region of northern Australia. It concludes that differences in the social systems between these towns and other Australian towns, and to some extent differences between each other, are great enough to invalidate direct extrapolation from studies elsewhere to the Pilbara. It emphasizes the need to explore the social processes observed elsewhere to link mental illness and social circumstances in the context of the constraints and opportunities influencing the operation of these processes in the Pilbara.