Sociology of mental health and disorders

Psychiatry and psychiatric disorders are closely related with social sciences through epidemiologic and etiologic characteristics of psychiatric disorders. Sociologists have been determined five basic views about mental health and disorders: social causation, societal reaction, critical theory, social constructivism, and social realism. Sociology consists of social class, gender, age, race and ethnicity, ethical issues, the characteristics of psychiatric therapies, hospitals, and professions. In the last two decades, it could not realize the cooperation between psychiatry and sociology because of psychiatry turn to biomedical model from biopsychosocial model. This cooperation is necessary for development as a scientific discipline of social psychiatry.