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The Encyclopedia of Social Theory examines the global landscape of all the key theories and the theorists behind them, presenting them in the context needed to understand their strengths and weaknesses. It covers the 18th century to the present. Search Madness or Mental Illness.

Personology is the study of human character in all of its complexities, covering the range of normal and pathological individuals, from evolutionary development, classification,diagnosis and measurement, to intervention at the individual,family, and societal levels.

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The U.S. Surgeon General's report on mental health notes Surveys estimate that during a 1-year period, 22 to 23 percent of the U.S. adult population or 44 million people have diagnosable mental disorders, according the reliable, established criteria. The report goes on to say, epidemiological estimates have shifted over time because of changes in the definitions and diagnosis of mental health and mental illness. Indeed, some experts believe there has been an astonishing rise in mental illness. According to one report in1987, prior to Prozac hitting the market and the current ubiquitous use of antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs, the U.S. mental illness disability rate was 1 in every 184 Americans, but by 2007 the mental illness disability rate had more than doubled to 1 in every 76 Americans. Discussion now revolves around the questions: Are there truly more mentally ill people now or are there just more people being diagnosed and treated? And what are the roles of economics and the pharmacological industry in this controversy? At the core of what is going on with mental illness in American and around the world, we believe, is cultural sociology: How differing cultures treat mental illness and, in turn, how mental health patients are affected by the culture. In this multidisciplinary reference, we look at the culture of mental illness from the non-clinical perspectives of sociology, history, psychology, epidemiology, economics, public health policy, and finally, the mental health patients themselves.