George Brown (sociologist)
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George William Brown
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FBA (born 1930) is a British medical sociologist who works in the field of social nature of mental illness.


Life and work

Brown was born in Portobello, London, in 1930, as one of non-identical twins. His father was a lens maker and his mother had been a waitress. He left school at 16 and initially moved between a number of jobs, including work in the . In 1948, he was called up for national service in the Air Force. He then went to University College London in 1951, studying archaeology and anthropology. After a series of jobs he obtained a research post at the Social Psychiatry Research Unit at the Maudsley Hospital. It was here that he began his research into schizophrenia. In the second half of the 1950s, Brown introduced the Expressed-Emotion-Concept, which since then has been broadly being adopted among researchers and practitioners in the fields of social psychiatry, psychiatry and therapy in general. In 1968 he moved to the Social Research Unit at
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, where he became first deputy director, then joint Director. It was here that he developed his research into the social aspects of depression. He also developed with Margot Jefferys a
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in medical sociology.


Publications

* Wing, J.K., & Brown, G.W. (1970). Institutionalism and Schizophrenia: A Comparative Study of Three Mental Hospitals 1960–1968. Cambridge; Cambridge University Press. * Brown, G.W., & Harris, T. (1978). Social origins of depression: A study of psychiatric disorder in women. London:Tavistock.


Awards

*1986 Fellow of the British Academy *1995
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in the
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*2002 DUniv, University of Essex


References

1930 births British sociologists Medical sociologists Academics of Bedford College, London Officers of the Order of the British Empire Living people Fellows of the British Academy {{UK-sociologist-stub