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  • 2 - Climate change in psychiatry: periodic fluctuations or terminal trend?

    • By Julian Leff, Department of Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Box 63, Institute of Psychiatry De Crespigny Park, London, UK
  • Edited by Craig Morgan, Kwame McKenzie, University College London, Paul Fearon
  • Book:
    Society and Psychosis
    Published online:
    07 December 2009
    Print publication:
    20 March 2008, pp 11-22

  • Summary

    Innovations in the practice of psychiatry can influence the direction of research. One can ask whether there is a natural periodicity in the swings between biological and psychosocial research, or whether they can perceive a tendency towards inexorably increasing biologism in recent years that eventually eclipse psychosocial research. The problem of detecting such a tendency is equivalent to the arguments over climate change, except that the time period available for scrutiny is less than 100 years instead of many millennia. The number of articles in the American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP) and the British Journal of Psychiatry (BJP) assigned to psychosocial and biological categories and the proportion of psychosocial articles in each year are shown in this chapter. The discipline of social psychiatry in the UK has a long history and has maintained a high research output, despite the greater influx of funds into biological psychiatry.