Fighting for Mental Health

A Personal View

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

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As Director of the Division of Mental Health at the World Health Organization, and subsequently President of the World Psychiatric Association, Norman Sartorius has over many years been in a position to survey the state of psychiatry worldwide and to campaign for greater equity and honesty in the clinical and research agenda. The essays collected in this 2002 book represent his latest thinking, as well as including his own selection from among a few of his innumerable speeches and previously published articles. They range from trenchant critiques of mental health service delivery and prevention to more light-hearted, anecdotal pieces on the use of language and how to get things done. All point to the core concerns for mental health programmes today: definition of needs; the role of psychiatry worldwide; and the challenges that urbanization presents for mental health. This is a book that every psychiatrist will wish to own.

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Utgivningsdatum2002-08-22
Mått161 x 237 x 21 mm
Vikt596 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor268
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9780521582438

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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.

'This book is a delight to read. By one of our leading international psychiatrists, it brings both wisdom and knowledge to bear on many key issues that the mental health movement currently faces … this is a book to savour: it is enjoyable as a straight read … but it is also a book for the bedside, to dip into from time to time … this book is contemporary and inspiring, challenging psychiatrists to become more involved with the wider contextual milieu in which we operate.' British Journal of Psychiatry