Social Change, Stress and Mental Health in the Pearl of the Alps :
[Book]
a Systemic Study of a Village Process
by Gottlieb Guntern.
Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
1979
(volumes)
Monographien aus dem Gesamtgebiete der Psychiatrie, Psychiatry Series, 22.
Conceptual Framework and the Methods of Investigation --;1. General Introduction --;2. Theoretical Problems of Social Change --;3. Problems of Methodology --;Development From an Isolated Mountain Village to an International Tourist Resort: Sociological and Socio-Psychological Aspects of the Village Process --;4. Time Before the Construction of the Road --;5. Construction of the Road in 1951 --;6. The Village Process After the Construction of the Road: Increasing Industrialization and Urbanization --;Social Change and Stress --;7. General Stress Concepts --;8. Social Change and Stress Indicators --;Stress Indicators Observed in 1970: Physical and Mental Health Aspects of the Village Process --;9. Psychosomatic Disorders --;10. Consumption of Alcohol --;11. Consumption of Drugs --;12. Consumption of Tobacco --;13. Psychiatric Disorders --;14. Crime --;15. Epilogue --;References.
I first became acquainted with Dr. Gottlieb Guntern's work at several scientific symposia and was impressed by the way he combined originality and imagination with the proper use of careful, multidisciplinary epidemiologic approaches.