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Psychiatry in Society provides an overview of the recent socio-economic and cultural changes affecting mental health and mental health care. These changes include: * The increasing complexity of the economic contexts within which mental health services are funded and delivered * The demand for cost-effectiveness evidence * The rationing of access to new pharmacotherapies and psychotherapies * The emergence of quality of life as an essential criterion in the assessment of health care interventions * The growing awareness of the influence of stigma on shaping the long-term course of severe mental disorders * The enhanced role of advocacy groups in providing information, advice and support to sufferers This book will be of interest to psychiatrists and psychologists, mental health workers, managers and policy makers.

Table of Contents:
List of Contributors. Preface. The Impact of Sociocultural and Economic Changes on Psychiatry (Leon Eisenberg ). Changes in Health Care Systems and Their Impact on Mental Health Care (Heinz Hafner). Globalization and Mental Health (Glyn Lewis and Ricardo Araya). The Impact of Legislation on Mental Health Policy (Jose M. Bertolote, Jose G. Taborda, Julio Arboleda-Florez and Francisco Torres). The New Ethical Context of Psychiatry (Ahmed Okasha). Community Mental Health Care: Promises and Pitfalls (Paul Bebbington, Sonia Johnson and Graham Thornicroft). Quality of Life: A New Dimension in Mental Heath Care (Heinz Katsching and Monika Krautgartner). Mental Health Problems in Refugees (Benedetto Saraceno, Shekhar Saxena and Pallab K. Maulik). The Homeless Mentally Ill (Viviane Kovess). Mental Health Consequences of Disasters (Evelyn J. Bromet and Johan M. Havenaar). Mass Media and Psychiatry (Olga Cuenca). Index. Acknowledgements.

About the Author :
Norman Sartorius is a psychiatrist and professor. He previously served as a director of the World Health Organization's Division of Mental Health. He has also been a former president of the World Psychiatric Association and of the European Psychiatric Association. Wolfgang Gaebel is Professor of Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany. He was Chairman of the German Society for Biological Psychiatry and of the German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology. He is a Member of the scientific Advisory Board of the German Medical Association. He is active in various roles within the World Psychiatric Association, including as Chairman of the German Anti-Stigma Association and of the Section on Schizophrenia. Juan José Lopez-Ibor is a Spanish psychiatrist. He studied medicine at the University of Valencia and of Madrid, where he obtained his doctorate in 1930. Mario Maj is Professor of Psychiatry at the Primo Policlinico Universitario in Naples, Italy. Maj has been President of the Italian Psychiatric Association; President of the Italian Society of Biological Psychiatry; Secretary-General of the Association of European Psychiatrists; Editor of "European Psychiatry" and World Psychiatry. He became President of the Association of European Psychiatrists in January 2002 and of the World Psychiatric Association in 2008.

Review :
"...a necessary item in any list of readings..." (Human Nature Review, 15 October 2002) "...in each chapter there is the sense of the author's individual voice conveying a wealth of experience and judgement..." (British Journal of Psychiatry, May 2003)


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  • ISBN-13: 9780470851791
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470851791
  • Publisher Date: 07 Jul 2003
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 304


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