People and Predicaments / Milton Mazer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mazer, Milton, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community mental health services--Massachusetts--Martha's Vineyard.

PSYCHOLOGY / General.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.

Social psychiatry--Massachusetts--Martha's Vineyard.

Local Subjects:

Community mental health services--Massachusetts--Martha's Vineyard.

PSYCHOLOGY / General.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.

Social psychiatry--Massachusetts--Martha's Vineyard.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the compelling story of an experiment begun in 1961 that eventually affected the lives of almost all of the residents of the island of Martha's Vineyard. The author writes engagingly of the island and its year-round inhabitants, a community of some seven thousand persons of diverse ethnic and social backgrounds. With sympathy and insight Milton Mazer analyzes the stresses that are peculiar to the conditions of life on the island, and he describes the kinds of psychological disorders that are precipitated by those stresses. He reports, without technical jargon, the results of a five-year study of a great variety of psychosocial predicaments experienced by the people of the island. Finally he examines the catalytic effect the mental health center and its research findings have had on the development of other supportive agencies and how the community established a network of human services to meet its needs. The work clearly demonstrates that striking advances can be made by a mental health program that is informed by an understanding of the community served. The book will stand as a model for future studies in this area.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

TABLES

FIGURES

I. The People

1. People in Predicament

2. The Island and Its People

3. The Values of Islanders

4. The Stresses of Island Life

5. The Resources and Needs of Islanders

II. The Predicaments

6. The Faces of Disorder

7. The Study of Disorder

8. Psychiatric Disorder in General Practice

9. Psychiatric Disorder in Mental Health Practice

10. Comparison of Psychiatric and General Practice

11. The Prevalence of Human Predicaments

12. Parapsychiatric Events and Psychiatric Disorder

13. The Multi-Predicament Family

III. The Services

14. Beyond Psychiatry

15. The Caretakers Move

16. The Human Service Network

17. The Functions of the Agencies

18. The Common Purpose

19. The Therapist in the Community

20. The Human Uses of the Community

Appendices Bibliography Index

Appendices

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-674-42973-7

OCLC:

1013936813