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Pregled razvoja sociologije mentalnih poremećaja
Development of the Sociology of Mental Disorders: An Overview

Author(s): Petar Opalić
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Sociološko naučno društvo Srbije
Keywords: history of sociology of mental disorders; sociogenesis of mental disorders; sociology; psychiatry;

Summary/Abstract: In the introduction the social character of mental disorders is discussed. In the second part the contribution of individual authors and their works to the development of sociology of mental disorders in European countries and the USA is described, with special emphasis on the sociogenesis of mental disorders. There follows an overview of the theories of Comte, Durkheim, Halbwachs, Meyer and Eliot, Goffman, Parsons, Foucault, as well as representatives of anti-psychiatry (Laing, Basaglia and Szasz) and Freudo-Marxists (Reich, Fromm etc.), to contemporary authors of relevant textbooks (Gallagher, Eaton, Cocherham etc.). The study of the sociology of mental disorders in Serbia is briefly sketched.

  • Issue Year: 49/2007
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 1-16
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Serbian