People and Predicaments /

People and Predicaments / / Milton Mazer.

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 ethn...

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Mazer, Milton,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1976
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (279 p.) :; 2 figures, 2 tables
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Table of 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

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