Social Class and Mental Illness: A Community Study

Class and Mental Illness: A Community Study. By August B. Hollingshead and Fredrick C. Redlich. Price, $7.50. Pp. 442. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 440 Fourth Ave., 1958. The ten-year collaborative research directed by Hollingshead, a sociologist, and Redlich, a psychiatrist, has already produced some twenty-five papers; and the general drift of their work is very well known. But in Social Class and Mental Illness most of the major data of their project are given for the first time in detail. (A second volume, entitled Social Class, Family Dynamics, and Mental Illness, by Jerome Myers and Bertram Roberts, will soon be published.) The entire project represents trends of capital importance that are affecting the…