Where Inner and Outer Worlds Meet: Psychosocial Research in the Tradition of George W. Brown

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Figures viii
• Tables ix
• Preface xiv
• 1 - Introduction to the Work of George Brown 1
• Part I - Social Psychiatry and Social Science 53
• 2 - George W. Brown's Contributionto Psychiatry 55
• 3 - Bringing Meaning Back into Social Psychiatric Research 61
• 4 - George W. Brown 71
• Part II - Measurement of Key Psychosocial Factors in Research 79
• 5 - Lessons from Using Semi-Structured Interviews with Seriously Ill Patients 81
• 6 - Expressed Emotion 97
• 7 - Contextual Measures and Subjective Appraisal 111
• Part III - Model Building 121
• 8 - Negative Life Events and Familynegativity 123

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Figures viii
• Tables ix
• Preface xiv
• 1 - Introduction to the Work of George Brown 1
• Part I - Social Psychiatry and Social Science 53
• 2 - George W. Brown's Contributionto Psychiatry 55
• 3 - Bringing Meaning Back into Social Psychiatric Research 61
• 4 - George W. Brown 71
• Part II - Measurement of Key Psychosocial Factors in Research 79
• 5 - Lessons from Using Semi-Structured Interviews with Seriously Ill Patients 81
• 6 - Expressed Emotion 97
• 7 - Contextual Measures and Subjective Appraisal 111
• Part III - Model Building 121
• 8 - Negative Life Events and Familynegativity 123
• 9 - Towards a Dynamic Stress-Vulnerability Model of Depression 151
• 10 - The Timing of Lives 171
• 11 - The Childhood Experience of Care and Abuse (Ceca) 195
• 12 - Gender Differences in the Experience and Response to Adversity 211
• 13 - The Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversities on Depression and Other Psychiatric Disorders 227
• 14 - Evolved Socio-Emotional Systems and Their Role in Depressive Disorders 245
• Part IV - Psychosocial Factors in Conditions Other Than Depression 261
• 15 - Life Stress and Bipolar Disorder 263
• 16 - The Study of Life Events 275
• Part V - Postscript 289
• 17 - Some Thoughts on the Future of Social Psychiatry 291
• Index 319