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[Psychiatry and mental disorders]. 1978

W Fischer

The analysis of the relations between social order and mental disorder is first based on the social system considered as the order of the differences and of the significant disparities in a stratified and hierarchial society. As psychiatry belongs to the system, it received the monopoly of access to the symbolic and mental dimension which is included in the disorders. We intend to show by some examples how psychiatry applies in this way a specific social order. Then we analyse the results of the setting of this order, results which are different according to the social position of the patients and their status in the psychiatric system. The efficiency of symbolic domination is not only for patients with disorders but also and more basically for the whole social system and the maintaining of its order.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D011570 Psychiatry The medical science that deals with the origin, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders.
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D001523 Mental Disorders Psychiatric illness or diseases manifested by breakdowns in the adaptational process expressed primarily as abnormalities of thought, feeling, and behavior producing either distress or impairment of function. Mental Illness,Psychiatric Diseases,Psychiatric Disorders,Psychiatric Illness,Behavior Disorders,Diagnosis, Psychiatric,Mental Disorders, Severe,Psychiatric Diagnosis,Illness, Mental,Mental Disorder,Mental Disorder, Severe,Mental Illnesses,Psychiatric Disease,Psychiatric Disorder,Psychiatric Illnesses,Severe Mental Disorder,Severe Mental Disorders
D012917 Social Adjustment Adaptation of the person to the social environment. Adjustment may take place by adapting the self to the environment or by changing the environment. (From Campbell, Psychiatric Dictionary, 1996). Adjustment, Social,Adjustments, Social,Social Adjustments
D012919 Social Behavior Any behavior caused by or affecting another individual or group usually of the same species. Sociality,Behavior, Social,Behaviors, Social,Social Behaviors
D012920 Social Behavior Disorders Behaviors which are at variance with the expected social norm and which affect other individuals. Behavior Disorders, Social,Disorders, Social Behavior
D012927 Social Control, Informal Those forms of control which are exerted in less concrete and tangible ways, as through folkways, mores, conventions, and public sentiment. Informal Social Control,Control, Informal Social,Controls, Informal Social,Informal Social Controls,Social Controls, Informal

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