Psychiatric Disorders and Susceptibility to Stress.
Dr. Dohrenwend was particularly known for her analysis of the various ways in which stress and other factors may produce psychiatric disorders.
Dr. Barbara Snell Dohrenwend, a social psychologist and epidemiologist who pioneered in studying the relationship between stressful life events and the development of mental illness, died of cancer Monday at the Harkness Pavilion of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.