Social Psychiatry Across Cultures: Studies from North America, Asia, Europe, and Africa

by Rumi Kato Price

Book Overview

The World Health Organization's concept of health as "the condition of psychophysical and social well-being" must be translated into opera- tional terms. The objective is to place the human person within the social system, given that mental health, mental illness, and suffering are individual, despite the fact that their causes are to be sought in the society and environment that surround and interact with the indi- vidual. One dimension that must...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306449714
• ISBN13: 9780306449710
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"