Social class matters when it comes to how we think about mental health. This has been true since psychiatry's earliest days—and remains the case even today.

The social classes of the modern age include Dinks, Alices and Henry. That's according to Renaud Foucart, a senior lecturer in Economics at Lancaster University, who claims today's social classes look ...

In 1958, sociologist August Hollingshead and psychiatrist Fritz Redlich wrote a pioneering book called Social Class and Mental Illness. They began the book with a memorable claim: "Americans prefer to ...