Social Psychiatry has been a key approach in psychiatry for many decades, straddling social aspects of psychiatry, public health and epidemiology, and such fields as medical/health anthropology and sociology. Now we need to update our definition of this important field with a 21st century definition. How is Social Psychiatry different from and unique in comparison to the already well-established Cultural Psychiatry and the new Global Mental Health Movement?
In support of Stephen Ternyik's comments: " Here seems to be a future field of social psychiatry, concerning internal attitudes (choice) and external conditions (chance), i.e. the feeling, mood or emotion of unfreedom seems to trigger mental illness, if we humans cannot mobilize our resistance resources against experienced stress stimuli. " .
i would propose the attachments as a mechanism for support of Stephen's comments. Attachment 1: This illustrates the affect of the human's mental "triggers" which have been investigated and quantified by many other research organizations such as the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy (intro to be found at https://beckinstitute.org).
Attachment 2: The human may be viewed "crudely" as a electro-mechanical composite dynamic system (heart and brain) exhibiting "motion and emotion"(both of which can be measured) . This journey starts at the beginning of life when the child is in the womb of the mother. As such, it could be said that all of life's journey begins at "its birth". Since this potential exists, it is important to examine the life journey from it's beginning to it's end . It may very well be possible that life's journey can be quantified (by use of a forensic simulator) via it's internal and external vibrations caused (triggered) by life's events.
Cannot offer a new definition, but prefer to practically point to the psycho-social concept of mentality; the work of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Geiger and his understanding of mentality as social position and conditioned life attitude can help to clarify decisive process of social pathologies. How much freedom-of-choice can people exercise to change external conditionalities, with respect to economic pressure? Here seems to be a future field of social psychiatry, concerning internal attitudes (choice) and external conditions (chance), i.e. the feeling, mood or emotion of unfreedom seems to trigger mental illness, if we humans cannot mobilize our resistance resources against experienced stress stimuli.
In support of Stephen Ternyik's comments: " Here seems to be a future field of social psychiatry, concerning internal attitudes (choice) and external conditions (chance), i.e. the feeling, mood or emotion of unfreedom seems to trigger mental illness, if we humans cannot mobilize our resistance resources against experienced stress stimuli. " .
i would propose the attachments as a mechanism for support of Stephen's comments. Attachment 1: This illustrates the affect of the human's mental "triggers" which have been investigated and quantified by many other research organizations such as the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy (intro to be found at https://beckinstitute.org).
Attachment 2: The human may be viewed "crudely" as a electro-mechanical composite dynamic system (heart and brain) exhibiting "motion and emotion"(both of which can be measured) . This journey starts at the beginning of life when the child is in the womb of the mother. As such, it could be said that all of life's journey begins at "its birth". Since this potential exists, it is important to examine the life journey from it's beginning to it's end . It may very well be possible that life's journey can be quantified (by use of a forensic simulator) via it's internal and external vibrations caused (triggered) by life's events.
Stephen I. Ternyik
Thank you for your contribution.
Sociology is certainly a cognate field of social psychiatry and it is my contention that one of the classics in American sociology, Richard Sennett's "The Hidden Injuries of Class,," is still sadly all-too-true. I have given a talk called, "The STILL Hidden Injuries of Class." And I criticize my own area of cultural psychiatry as having become too narrowly focused on identity politics.
That said, sociology is not a clinical or medical field although sociologists looking over our shoulders have brought some interesting notions to bear. I think of David Mechanic and others in the sociology of health.
Let's continue this dialogue in the spirit of interdisciplinarity.
Regards,
Vincenzo Di Nicola
Vincenzo Di Nicola
D.Mechanic is here on RG! Coming to Sennet's publication and your talk on hidden (class) injuries, we definitely cannot measure these psycho-mental injuries, in terms of $ and bio-statistics. We will have to research about human dignity in everyday life, social perception and psychological identity struggle, which is starting in kindergarten. It is about integrating medical points of observation:
Preprint Three Medical Points of Observation-Arousing medical awarene...
Thanks for your answers so far!
Any other ideas?
I would really like to hear from people that actually know the social and cultural psychiatry tradition and its history. Social psychiatry has often been lumped together with cultural psychiatry (also called transcultural psychiatry) on one side and with epidemiology (especially the research on the social determinants of health) on the other.
Regards,
Vincenzo Di Nicola
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