Long-Term Treatment Of Functional Psychoses, The

Description: In this 1985 text organizational, patient and public health aspects of long-term treatment of functional psychoses are described and areas are pinpointed where more information is required. The workshop on which the volume is based was arranged by the European Medical Research Councils and was attended by leading workers from a number of European countries. Accounts of the organization of and alternatives to hospitals and of the effects of closing mental hospitals are followed by discussions of psychotherapy, milieu-therapy and pharmacotherapy, neuroleptic, lithium and antidepressive medication. The care of schizophrenics, of children and of the aged are discussed. In all these areas the book draws attention to areas of research or aspects of long-term treatment which need further probing.

Contents: List of participants; Introduction T. Helgason; Part I. Organisational Aspects of Long-Term Treatment: 1. Classification of functional psychoses requiring long-term treatment E. Stromgren; 2. Structural changes in psychiatric hospitals N. Retterstol; 3. Alternatives to hospitals: a field of promises and of not-yet answered questions C. Perris; 4. The closing of mental hospitals in Italy and its long-term impact on the treatment of functional psychoses E. Torre; 5. Future developments in Italy R. Misiti; 6. Optimal duration of long-term treatment in functional psychoses R. Sadoun; Part II. Patients Aspects of Long-Term Treatment: 7. Needed areas of research in psychological treatments in functional psychoses R. Daly; 8. Family therapy as part of the treatment of schizophrenia Y. O. Alanen; 9. Milieu therapy in the long-term treatment of functional psychoses: needed areas of research P. Vaglum and S. Friis; 10. Long-term treatment of functional psychosis with neuroleptics R. ohman and R. Axelsson; 11. Lithium and prophylaxis in manic-depressive illness P. Vestergaard; 12. New perspectives in psychopharmacology O. J. Rafaelsen; 13. Research implications of recent trends in the treatment of schizophrenia . L. Ciompi; 14. Long-term treatment of functional psychoses in childhood and adolescence J. Appelboom-Fondu; 15. Functional psychosis in old age C. Muller; 16. Chronicity and hospitalization: can the vicious circles be broken? E. E. Anttinen; 17. Social network and the long-term course of mental disorders - research needs H. Katschnig and T. Koniexzna; Part III. Public Health Aspects of Long-Term Treatment: 18. Introduction to public health aspects of chronic illness and long-term treatment H. Hafner and W. an der Heiden; 19. Case registers for monitoring treatment outcome in chronic functional psychoses D. Walsh; 20. Social disability and chronic mental disorder R. Giel, A. de Jong, C. J. Sloof and D. Wiersma; 21. The neglect of the patient with chronic functional psychosis: the need for further research R. G. Priest, P. Raptopoulos and M. L. Chan; 22. Suicides and functional psychoses N. Juel-Nielsen; 23. Interaction with families J. Leff; 24. Cost effectiveness analysis D. Goldberg; 25. Consumption of services - European aspects J. H. Henderson; Index.