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Social Class and Mental Disorder

 

作者: Leo Levy,  

 

期刊: Psychopathology  (Karger Available online 1974)
卷期: Volume 7, issue 4-5  

页码: 271-286

 

ISSN:0254-4962

 

年代: 1974

 

DOI:10.1159/000283595

 

出版商: S. Karger AG

 

数据来源: Karger

 

摘要:

This paper reviews the literature on the relationship of social class status to the incidence and prevalence of mental disorder. For purposes of this review, social class is divided into three categories: the ‘affluent’, ‘working class’ and ‘poor’. Mental disorders referred to are: schizophrenia, manic-depressive psychosis, psychoneurosis, diseases of the senium, personality disorders and the combined category ‘mentally ill’. The general conclusion is drawn that the rate of existing mental disorder among the poor is substantially higher than among the affluent or working-class groups. This notwithstanding, low social-class status is held to be unrelated to the incidence of functional psychosis (i.e., schizophrenia and manic-depres

 

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