People and Predicaments

Milton Mazer

Published by Harvard University Press 2013

People and Predicaments

Milton Mazer

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674429734

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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.

Frontmatter Accessible Download PDF	i
Preface Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	vii
Contents Accessible Download PDF	xi
TABLES Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	xiii
FIGURES Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	xiii
I. The People
1. People in Predicament Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	3
2. The Island and Its People Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	15
3. The Values of Islanders Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	41
4. The Stresses of Island Life Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	52
5. The Resources and Needs of Islanders Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	76
II. The Predicaments
6. The Faces of Disorder Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	87
7. The Study of Disorder Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	98
8. Psychiatric Disorder in General Practice Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	111
9. Psychiatric Disorder in Mental Health Practice Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	121
10. Comparison of Psychiatric and General Practice Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	138
11. The Prevalence of Human Predicaments Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	142
12. Parapsychiatric Events and Psychiatric Disorder Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	149
13. The Multi-Predicament Family Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	156
III. The Services
14. Beyond Psychiatry Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	165
15. The Caretakers Move Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	175
16. The Human Service Network Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	182
17. The Functions of the Agencies Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	190
18. The Common Purpose Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	203
19. The Therapist in the Community Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	212
20. The Human Uses of the Community Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	228
Appendices Bibliography Index
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Bibliography Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	265
Index Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	276

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Edition: Reprint 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Front matter: 13
- Main content: 279
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 2
- Tables: 2
- Other: 2 figures, 2 tables
Keywords: Social psychiatry -- Massachusetts -- Martha's Vineyard.; Community mental health services -- Massachusetts -- Martha's Vineyard.; PSYCHOLOGY / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General

eBook

Published: October 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780674429734

Hardcover

Published: February 5, 1976
ISBN: 9780674429727