Mental Health and Illness in the City

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Review of Urban Mental Health

   • Niels Okkels, Christina Blanner Kristiansen, Povl Munk-Jørgensen

   Pages 1-13

3. Primarius

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. History of Urban Mental Illness

      • Edward Shorter

      Pages 17-24

4. Urban Mental Health: The Facts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Urban-Rural Differences in Major Mental Health Conditions

      • Francesca Solmi, Jennifer Dykxhoorn, James B. Kirkbride

      Pages 27-132

   3. Homicide and Suicide in Megacities

      • Carolina Ziebold Jorquera, Denisse Jaen-Varas, Jair de Jesus Mari

      Pages 133-151

5. Urban Mental Health: Challenges

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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   2. Institutions: Prisons and Asylums and the Deinstitutionalization

      • Sean Z. Kaliski

      Pages 155-168

   3. Crime, Illegal Drugs, and Mental Health

      • Joana Corrêa de Magalhães Narvaez, Caroline Galli Moreira, Fernando Rosa da Rosa

      Pages 169-190

   4. Discrimination in Urban Settings

      • Soumitra Pathare, Antonio Ventriglio, Rubens Dantas, Dinesh Bhugra

      Pages 191-203

   5. Loneliness and Single-Person Households: Issues of Kodokushi and Hikikomori in Japan

      • Takahiro A. Kato, Naotaka Shinfuku, Norman Sartorius, Shigenobu Kanba

      Pages 205-219

6. Urban Mental Health Around the World

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221

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   2. Mental Health Care in 11 Major Cities Over Two Decades

      • David Goldberg, Graham Thornicroft, Maryam Abbasinejad, Francesco Amaddeo, Gavin Andrews, Dinarte Ballester et al.

      Pages 223-282

   3. Migration and Urban Mental Health in China

      • Juan Chen

      Pages 283-298

   4. Religious Perspectives in Urban and Rural Mental Health in the Muslim World

      • Tarek A. Okasha

      Pages 299-315

   5. Mental Health and Urban Life: Experiences from Colombia

      • Carlos López-Jaramillo, Jorge Mauricio Cuartas Arias, Ana M. Díaz Zuluaga

      Pages 317-332

   6. Implementing Community Care in Large Cities and Informal Settlements: An African Perspective

      • Lesley Jane Robertson, Christopher Paul Szabo

      Pages 333-356

   7. Prospects and Challenges of Mental Health Services in a Major City in Latin America: Rio de Janeiro

      • Giovanni Marcos Lovisi, Lúcia Abelha, Sara Schilling, Rubén Alvarado Muñoz

      Pages 357-375

   8. Development of Mental Health Services in a Major City in Latin America: Santiago

      • Rubén Alvarado Muñoz, Sara Schilling, Lúcia Abelha, Giovanni Marcos Lovisi

      Pages 377-392

This book highlights a broad range of issues on mental health and illness in large cities. It presents the epidemiology of mental disorders in cities, cultural issues of urban mental health care, and community care in large cities and urban slums. It also includes chapters on homelessness, crime and racism - problems that are increasingly prevalent in many cities world wide. Finally, it looks at the increasing challenges of mental disorders in rapidly growing cities. The book is aimed at an international audience and includes contributions from clinicians and researchers worldwide.

• Mental health
• cities
• mental disorders
• towns
• urban

• Department of Affective Disorders, Aarhus University Hospital Risskov, Risskov, Denmark

  Niels Okkels

• Department of Psychiatry, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark

  Christina Blanner Kristiansen, Povl Munk-Jørgensen

The three editors, Christina Blanner Kristiansen (CBK, graduates from medical school 2015) Niels Okkels (NO, graduated 2014) and Povl Munk-Jørgensen (PMJ, graduated 1972) have since 2011 established themselves as a well functioning team in psychiatric research education and publishing. PMJ represents a longlasting international experience in academic psychiatry e.g. 18 years editorship of The Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica and six years as president of The European Psychiatric Association Section Epidemiology and Social Psychiatry. His main interest is recruiting and education on an elitarian level. CBK and NO represents the paradigmatic shift in psychiatry towards an early entrance into academic psychiatry seen these years among the best of medical students. Both started preparing their ph.d.-studies already very early during medical school, both focusing on clinical relevant topics. Both of them already have solid experiences within academic psychiatry and profound international networks. CBK´s ph.d.-study involves three European university clinics; NO has gained editorial experiences from writing a Danish Psychiatric e-Textbook and from an advisory board membership with The Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica.In 2012 NO and PMJ established The Psychiatric Research Academy, inviting the most gifted and interested medical students to be trained in practical clinical research on an eliterian basis; CBK is a member of The Academy´s steering committee.Niels Okkels is our team leader in editing the present book.

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