Oxford Textbook of Social Psychiatry

The Oxford Textbook of Social Psychiatry serves as a comprehensive reference to the historical, theoretical, and practical aspects of social psychiatry, and its role in the management of psychiatric disorders. Written and edited by leading experts and rising stars in the field of social psychiatry, this textbook provides an authoritative and global look at social psychiatry, covering a wealth of topics and up-to-date research in 79 chapters. Divided into eight sections, this resource covers an overview of the history and development of social psychiatry, as well as the social world of families, culture, and identity, focusing on key issues such as globalisation, pandemics, trauma, spirituality, and gender. Clinical conditions and special vulnerable groups are also explored, with topics such as the mental health of prisoners, somatisation, and eating disorders. Case studies of specific geographical locations provide a critical overview of global mental health today and the challenges faced in different setting, such as low- and middle-income countries.

1. - Historical development
2. - All psychiatry is social
3. - Categories and their implications
4. - Social constructs and diagnostic perspectives
5. - Epi-genetics and aetiology of mental illness
6. - Sociology and social psychiatry
7. - The Contemporary Dynamics of the Social Relationship: the interface between social media and the human psyche in the maintenance of our mental wellbeing
8. - Anthropology and social psychiatry
9. - Social epidemiology
10. - Culture and mental illness
11. - Culture and identity
12. - Globalisation and social psychiatry
13. - Disasters, Emergencies and Social Psychiatry
14. - Geopsychiatry and social psychiatry
15. - Psychiatry in the time of pandemic
16. - Migrants, migration and social psychiatry
17. - Social Psychiatry and refugees and asylum seekers
18. - Trauma and Resilience
19. - Impact of trauma
20. - Social determinants
21. - Revisiting the "gap": Intersections of health inequality, poverty and psychological wellbeing
22. - The Impact of Capitalism on Mental Health: An Epidemiological Perspective
23. - Gender
24. - Masculinity, male roles, mental illnesses and social psychiatry
25. - Spirituality and resilience
26. - Families and psychiatric disorders
27. - Discrimination and stigma
28. - Poverty and social psychiatry
29. - Unemployment and work
30. - Social media
31. - Urbanization as the new framework for psychiatry
32. - Homelessness and mental health
33. - Social Capital
34. - The web and its impact on mental health care
35. - Psychosis: Consequence and cause of fractured personal relationships?
36. - Schizophrenia
37. - Common mental disorders
38. - Social aspects of depression
39. - Personality disorders
40. - Social psychiatry and addictions
41. - Eating disorders
42. - Social determinants of child psychopathology
43. - Late life disorders: Sociocultural Factors and the Mental Health of Elders
44. - Somatisation: medically unexplained symptoms
45. - Social & cultural factors in perinatal mental health
46. - A contemporary view of Suicide
47. - Sexual diversity
48. - Mental illness in prisoners
49. - Intellectual disability
50. - Mental illness in the family: the view of a family member
51. - Public mental health
52. - Psychological first aid
53. - Social prescribing
54. - Social interventions in common mental disorders
55. - Digital Interventions for mental health
56. - Managing children and young people
57. - Recovery and the mental health system
58. - Tele-mental health
59. - Psychopharmacology and social factors
60. - Leisure Activities: Art in the Healing Process
61. - Resilience, mental health and migration
62. - Atmiyata - a community led intervention for common mental disorders in rural India
63. - Integrative community therapy: The power of sharing in communities
64. - Lessons from the English Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Programme (IAPT) in delivering primary care psychotherapy
65. - Deinstitutionalisation in the United Kingdom
66. - The De-Institutionalisation of the Mentally Ill: Lessons from Italy
67. - Coercion in community mental health care
68. - Mental health legislation and social rights
69. - Human rights, UN convention on rights of persons with disabilities and psychiatry - on a collision course?
70. - Challenges to mental health in Europe
71. - Mental Health Care in Eastern Europe and the Balkans
72. - Mental health in low- and middle-income countries
73. - Mental health literacy in low- and middle-income countries
74. - Psychological treatments in low- and middle-income countries
75. - Mental health in Latin America
76. - Mental Health in the Middle East
77. - Mental health in Africa - the case study of Kenya
78. - Training in social psychiatry
79. - Conclusions

Professor Dinesh Bhugra, Past- President, Royal College of Psychiatrists (2008-2011), World Psychiatric Association (2014-2017), British Medical Association (2018-2019), and Professor Emeritus of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity, Kings College London. He has published widely with several books winning awards and going into multiple editions and translated into Japanese and Mandarin. His Oxford Textbook for Public Mental Health won BMA Book of the Year award in 2019 and Practical Cultural Psychiatry was highly recommended. Editor of the International Journal of Social Psychiatry and International Review of Psychiatry. He is also on the board of several charities and chairs DocHealth charity. Professor Driss Moussaoui is Professor Emeritus at Ibn Rushd University Psychiatric Centre, Casablanca, Morocco. Professor Tom J Craig, Emeritus Professor of Social Psychiatry King's College London and Past President World Association of Social Psychiatry (2013-16). He qualified in medicine at the University of the West Indies and trained in psychiatry in Nottingham, UK. Appointed as Professor of Community Psychiatry in 1990 with his clinical base in the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. His research focuses on developing and evaluating community-based psychiatric services including residential alternatives to the hospital asylum, specialised services for homeless mentally ill people, services for first episode psychosis, and psychosocial interventions including computer-based AVATAR therapy for auditory hallucinations.