Two Ways of Expressing Psychological Disorder: The Experience of a Demarcated Population
Abstract
A five-year survey of an entire island population identified psychiatric patients and others experiencing "parapsychiatric events"—jail sentences, premarital pregnancy, auto license withdrawal, chronic alcoholism, etc. The most notable finding was the consistent relationship between low social class position and high prevalence rates. The study also suggested that those with psychologic disorder who reach psychiatric treatment and those who come to the attention of public and quasipublic agencies are from two different segments of the population.
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