Die Entwicklung der Psychiatrischen Soziologie [The Development of Psychiatric Sociology,

  • Various definitions of the term >psychiatric sociology< are noted and the scope and methods of the discipline are reviewed. Its origin and development is traced back to A. Comte in France. E. Durkheim, M. Mauss, and even C. Levi-Strauss are viewed as contributors. The work of Roger Bastide, SOCIOLOGIE DES MALADIES MENTALES (Sociology of Mental Illnesses, 1965), is considered important. The field became consolidated and further developed in the United States where, ever since S. Freud's visit in 1909, psychiatry has attempted to build bridges to sociology. The work of C. H. Cooley and G. H. Mead, studies by A. B. Hollingshead and F. C. Redlich, by A. Leighton, A. H. Stanton, A. M. Rose, and many others are mentioned as having furthered the concerns of psychiatric sociology. Labeling and stigmatization theory, reinforcement theory, and phenomenological psychology have contributed. Thomas J. Scheff, using cybernetic schemas, has developed a model whose hypotheses he has, in part, empirically tested. In Germany and Austria, psychoanalysts such as Wilhelm Reich, Karl Birnbaum and Erich FROMM built on Freud's thought in analyses of the social and political events of the 1930's, sometimes by simultaneous reference to Marxist ideas. Some could only complete their work in exile in the United States. After World War II, United States work reached Europe and was further developed. Since 1964 there has also been some empirical work oriented on United States trends, notably by Helga Reimann and Heinz Hafner, Michael Wilken, Martin Jäckel, Stefan Wieser, and many others. Important contributions on communication processes have been produced by Ronald D. Laing, Gregory Bateson, Don D. Jackson, and Theodore Lidz. German psychiatric sociology is carried on by a small, young avant-garde group at the margin of the sociological establishment. It may be said that the recent integration of social historical knowledge and ideological-critique in psychiatry, of which labeling theory is a small component, has been the special contribution of German scholars. Current work on diviant behavior and social control will bring further development.

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Author:Helga Reimann
Parent Title (German):Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Vo. 25 (No. 2, Juni 1973) pp. 240-256.
Document Type:Articles
Language:German
Year of first Publication:1973
Release Date:2014/01/28
Format:PDF-scan to download
IdNo:Reimann_H_1973
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Articles / Artikel
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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