Fighting for Mental Health: A Personal View

ISBN-13: 9780521582438 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 268 str.

Norman Sartorius

Opis

As Director of the Division of Mental Health at the World Health Organization, and President of the World Psychiatric Association, Norman Sartorius has surveyed the state of psychiatry worldwide and campaigned for greater equity and honesty in the clinical and research agenda. The essays collected here represent his latest thinking, and include some of his speeches and previously published articles. They range from trenchant critiques of mental health service delivery and prevention to more light-hearted, anecdotal pieces on language use and increasing productivity. All address core concerns for mental health programs today: the definition of needs; the role of psychiatry worldwide; and the challenges that urbanization presents for mental health.

Recenzje

'This book dignifies those who struggle with illness or care in families.' Psychology and Psychiatry

Spis treści

Part I. The Context of Health and Mental Health Programmes: 1. Updating 1789; 2. Doubts about three of the many dogmas of development; 3. Overlaps and confusions; 4. Nearly forgotten: mental health needs of an urbanized planet; 5. The Mozart effect and Keshan disease; 6. The paradoxes about psychiatry; 7. On advice and consultation; Part II. Mental Health and Medicine: 8. Psychiatry in the framework of primary health care: a threat or boost for psychiatry?; 9. The limits of mental health care in general medical services; 10. The mental health adventure of the World Health Organization; 11. Mental health care for the elderly? Another thirty years to wait; 12. On words I like to hate; Part III. Psychiatry and Mental Health Programmes: 13. Assessing needs for psychiatric services; 14. Why are mental and neurological disorders not being prevented?; 15. The seven vices of psychiatry; 16. Brueghel's Everyman: a cover page for a book on research in psychiatry; 17. And then there were five …; 18. Enabling; 19. Psychiatry in developing countries; Index.