The role of prediction in modern science
the example of psychiatry
pp. 187-191
in: Robert Zwilling (ed), Natural sciences and human thought, Berlin, Springer, 1995Abstract
Both ecological and psychosocial environmental factors are believed to influence the quality of mental health. Using classical methodological tools of social psychiatry, we can demonstrate, for example, the correlation of revolutionary changes after the breakdown of the Communist regime in the former Czechoslovakia with rapidly growing alcohol consumption, tobacco smoking, crime rate, prostitution and undulating psychiatric morbidity.