The Sociology of Mental Disorders
Brand: Praeger Publishers
Categories: Books, New, Used & Rental Textbooks, Medicine & Health Sciences



Dimensions: 6 x 1 x 9 inches
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0275963233
Publisher: Praeger
Print length: 400 pages
Publication date: November 30, 2000
ISBN-13: 978-0275963231
Edition: 3rd
subtitle: 3rd Edition
author: Visit Amazon's William W. Eaton Page search results William W. Eaton
review: Editorial Reviews Review .,."a quality work that is filing a need."-The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease .,."this book will be a good choice for psychologists who teach upper level courses in abnormal psychology and who want to provide a text that provides a social view that complements, rather than contradists, a psychological viewpoint. It will be especially appropriate for psychologists who teach general courses about mental illness in professional programs in public health or medical schools. Eaton resolves the sociologist's dilemmas in ways that should please psychologists who want collaborative and not adversarial relationships with sociologists."-Contemporary Psychology ?...a quality work that is filing a need.?-The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease ?...this book will be a good choice for psychologists who teach upper level courses in abnormal psychology and who want to provide a text that provides a social view that complements, rather than contradists, a psychological viewpoint. It will be especially appropriate for psychologists who teach general courses about mental illness in professional programs in public health or medical schools. Eaton resolves the sociologist's dilemmas in ways that should please psychologists who want collaborative and not adversarial relationships with sociologists.?-Contemporary Psychology ?...a quality work that is filing a need.??The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease ..."a quality work that is filing a need."-The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease ..."this book will be a good choice for psychologists who teach upper level courses in abnormal psychology and who want to provide a text that provides a social view that complements, rather than contradists, a psychological viewpoint. It will be especially appropriate for psychologists who teach general courses about mental illness in professional programs in public health or medical schools. Eaton resolves the sociologist's dilemmas in ways that should please psychologists who want collaborative and not adversarial relationships with sociologists."-Contemporary Psychology About the Author WILLIAM W. EATON is Professor of Mental Hygiene in the School of Hygiene and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. He is also Director of the NIMH Training Program in Psychiatric Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University. In addition to the first and second edition of The Sociology of Mental Disorders (1980 and 1985), he has authored numerous scientific articles and coedited three books.