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Positive Psychology and the Lessons of Social Psychiatry | Utopian Aspirations of Postwar Social Psychiatry | After Utopia: The Decline of Social Psychiatry and Rise of Social Stress and Social Support Research | Beyond Utopia: Flourishing, Suffering, and Virtue in Positive Psychiatry | Summary | References

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To what extent are happiness and human flourishing social, rather than individual, phenomena? And how do healthy individuals and healthy communities and societies reciprocally enable each other? Because psychiatry and clinical psychology are organized around models of individual mental health and mental illness, these questions are often deferred to other social scientific disciplines such as sociology and organizational behavior.

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