Special issue: interdisciplinary historical studies

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Community-based interdisciplinary research: introduction to the special issue.

This special issue on community-based interdisciplinary research grew out of the work of the SCRA Interdisciplinary Task Force and an Interdisciplinary Working Conference held at Vanderbilt University in May, 2004. In this introduction to the special issue, the historical context for interdisciplinary underpinnings for community psychology theory, research, action and training is first depicted...

Introduction to the Special Issue: Toward an Interdisciplinary Neuroaesthetics

Had we been there, we might have noticed that the people entering the cave, on the cliff overlooking the ocean, were carrying several objects. We might have given in to our curiosity, and quietly followed them in. Once inside, we would have seen them laboriously rubbing reddish rocks against shiny gray slabs of stone, producing a thin red powder. We would also have noticed them using sharp ston...

Interdisciplinary - A Historical Reflection

Interdisciplinary team work combines the strengths of two or more disciplines with the aim of identifying problems, revealing associations, working out solutions to problems, and applying these. Such collaboration frequently yields new, unexpected, and possibly trail-blazing results. The remarkable aspects of interdisciplinary teams include the emerging insights and conclusions, which extend be...

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j Abstract After legislative changes in 1978, Italian psychiatry underwent a thorough overhaul, with the gradual closure of all Mental Hospitals. A nation-wide network of Departments of Mental Health now deliver outpatient and inpatient care, but also run semi-residential and residential facilities (the latter with 2.9 beds per 10,000 inhabitants). Hospital care is delivered through small psych...