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The Influence of Social Factors on Common Mental Disorders

Destabilisation and Restitution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

David Goldberg ,
Keith Bridges ,
Diane Cook ,
Barbara Evans  and
David Grayson
David Goldberg*
Affiliation:
Mental Illness Research Unit, University of Manchester
Keith Bridges
Affiliation:
Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester
Diane Cook
Affiliation:
NH and MRC Social Psychiatry, Canberra, Australia
Barbara Evans
Affiliation:
University of Manchester
David Grayson
Affiliation:
NH and MRC Social Psychiatry Research Unit, Canberra, Australia, now Department of Psychology, University of Sydney
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

This study distinguishes between processes that cause individuals to experience symptoms – destabilisation – and those that are associated with loss of symptoms over time – restitution. It is shown that different clinical, social, and personality variables are associated with each of these processes. Where destabilisation is concerned, it is shown that different variables were associated with the development of symptoms of anxiety and those of depression. Different variables were associated with restitution, and they did not show the same relationship with the symptom dimensions of anxiety and depression as those which were associated with destabilisation.

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Lecture
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 156 , Issue 5 , May 1990 , pp. 704 - 713
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1990 

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