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The importance of George Brown's sustained contribution to medical sociology through his longitudinal studies of psychiatric disorder and its relationship to social context is widely recognised. This collection of seventeen chapters exemplifies a particular way of working as a medical sociologist which focuses on the understanding of the meaning of social experiences as the key to an individual's health status. It combines the biographical richness of qualitative analysis and thus reach conclusions on the basis of statistical significance. The contributors mainly focus on conditions of dep

Social psychiatry. --- Depression, Mental --- Life change events. --- Adjustment (Psychology) --- Accommodation (Psychology) --- Adaptation (Psychology) --- Adapting behavior --- Adaptive behavior --- Coping behavior --- Maladjustment (Psychology) --- Personality --- Psychology --- Adaptability (Psychology) --- Events, Life change --- Experiences, Stressful life --- Life events, Stressful --- Life experiences, Stressful --- Stressful events --- Stressful life events --- Developmental psychology --- Experience --- Stress (Psychology) --- Psychiatry, Social --- Clinical sociology --- Mental health --- Psychiatry --- Social medicine --- Social psychology --- Etiology.