title: [Social psychiatry without sociology. Analysis of a scientific journal].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Psychiatry and Sociology have followed separate avenues in Germany since the mid 1970 s. The aim of this work is to investigate their present relationship by means of an analysis of a scientific journal.
  
  
  METHODS
  All original works dealing with social psychiatric subjects and appearing in Psychiatrische Praxis in the years 2002 and 2003 were analysed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Sociologists appear to be a minority among the authors. Questions that are explicitly related to sociological theories were an exception, and sociological authors have hardly been quoted.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Social psychiatric research in Germany is still conducted without Sociology. If social psychiatry is to gain in importance as a scientific discipline, closer cooperation with its mother discipline is imperative. As an example, the application of the rational choice theory in psychiatric research is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie, Universität Leipzig. krausem@medizin.uni-leipzig.de
authors.forename: Matthias C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Angermeyer
authors.forename: Hendrik
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kluge
authors.forename: Steffi G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Riedel-Heller
authors.forename: Christiane
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Roick
mesh_terms: D003158:Community Psychiatry / Q000639:trends*; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D005544:Forecasting; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000639:trends*; D011643:Publishing / Q000639:trends*; D012961:Sociology / Q000639:trends*; D013038:Specialization / Q000639:trends