Mental Disorders In Urban Areas: An Ecological Study Of Schizophrenia And Other Psychoses
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A landmark in the history of psychiatric sociology, Mental Disorders in Urban Areas presents a groundbreaking ecological investigation into the geographic distribution of mental illness across the modern city. Robert E. L. Faris and H. Warren Dunham meticulously map the incidence of schizophrenia and other psychoses across Chicago's neighbourhoods, arguing with compelling empirical force that rates of mental disorder are not randomly distributed — but are instead concentrated in zones of social disorganisation, poverty, and isolation at the urban core. Drawing on hospital admission records and detailed census data, the authors construct a powerful case for understanding mental illness as a social, as much as an individual, phenomenon. First published in 1939 and reissued as a Phoenix Books paperback, this study remains a foundational text in the fields of urban sociology, epidemiology, and community psychiatry. Faris and Dunham's rigorous quantitative methodology and their insistence on situating psychological breakdown within its broader social ecology were decades ahead of their time, anticipating the social determinants of health framework that dominates contemporary public health discourse. Written with scholarly precision yet accessible in its argument, the book leaves the reader with an unsettling and enduring question: how much of what we call madness is, in truth, a mirror held up to the city itself?
Author: Robert E. L. Faris & H. Warren Dunham
Format: Paperback
Genre: Psychology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A landmark in the history of psychiatric sociology, Mental Disorders in Urban Areas presents a groundbreaking ecological investigation into the geographic distribution of mental illness across the modern city. Robert E. L. Faris and H. Warren Dunham meticulously map the incidence of schizophrenia and other psychoses across Chicago's neighbourhoods, arguing with compelling empirical force that rates of mental disorder are not randomly distributed — but are instead concentrated in zones of social disorganisation, poverty, and isolation at the urban core. Drawing on hospital admission records and detailed census data, the authors construct a powerful case for understanding mental illness as a social, as much as an individual, phenomenon. First published in 1939 and reissued as a Phoenix Books paperback, this study remains a foundational text in the fields of urban sociology, epidemiology, and community psychiatry. Faris and Dunham's rigorous quantitative methodology and their insistence on situating psychological breakdown within its broader social ecology were decades ahead of their time, anticipating the social determinants of health framework that dominates contemporary public health discourse. Written with scholarly precision yet accessible in its argument, the book leaves the reader with an unsettling and enduring question: how much of what we call madness is, in truth, a mirror held up to the city itself?