Fighting for Mental Health: A Personal View

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Norman Sartorius

Brand: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9780521582438

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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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Brand Cambridge University Press

Reference 97486

EAN13 9780521582438

ISBN 9780521582438

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Publication date: 2002
Issue number: 1
Cover: hard cover
Pages count: 268
Dimensions (mm): 152.00 x 229.00
Weight (g): 530

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. Brueghels 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.