Principles of Social Psychiatry

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This second edition ofPrinciples of Social Psychiatry
appears more than 15 years after the first one, and even
a cursory comparison between the contents of the two
editions clearly documents that the scope and the
impact of the social component of our discipline and
profession have remarkably increased during the past
few years.
There is now a more widespread awareness of
the role of social risk factors even in the aetiology of
mental disorders that had been traditionally perceived
to be mostly biological in their causation. Schizophrenia is a good example. The research evidence concerning the association between some social factors – such
as urbanicity and a history of migration – and the
likelihood of developing a psychotic condition is now
quite robust, and there is also some evidence of a
synergy between these factors and familial liability in
the causation of the disorder.
Also increasing is awareness of the impact of social
factors on the identification and the diagnosis of
menta

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