Past, Present and Future of Psychiatry

This volume presents the highlights of the IX World Congress of Psychiatry. The congress was a major event with the participation of over 6000 scientists from all over the world with the scientific program covering all aspects of contemporary psychiatry. The 200 papers selected for this volume provide an insight into recent advances in psychiatry. They discuss a wide spectrum of subjects ranging from the diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses to critical issues affecting the future of mental health care throughout the world. Authors include leading psychiatric clinicians and researchers throughout the world as well as international mental health policy makers. Contents:Genetic Aspects: Psychosis and the Problem of Human Brain Evolution (T J Crow)Molecular Genetics in Psychiatry Research (J Mendlewicz)Neurochemistry: Tardive Dyskinesia Mechanisms and Abnormal Glucose Metabolism (D E Casey)Neurophysiology: Cognitive Impairment in Physiological and Pathological Aging (C L Cazzullo)Nosology and Classification: The ICD-10 Multiaxial System: Preliminary Results of Field Trials (J J Lopez Ibor et al.)Assessment: Issues on Forensic Psychiatry Epidemiology (J A Arboleda-Florez & E J Love)Testing: An Introduction to Recent Trends in Neuroimaging Relevant to Psychiatry (D Copolov)Affective Disorders: Bipolar II: Prevalence and Clinical Significance of the Soft Bipolar Spectrum (H S Akiskal)Modern Views on the Treatment of Therapy-Resistant Depression (K Achte et al. )Paradigm for the Management of Resistant Depression (A Okasha)Schizophrenia and Related Psychotic Disorders: Delusional Misidentification Syndromes: Recent Developments (G Christodoulou)Multiaxial Diagnosis of Schizophrenic Patients (J E Mezzich & M I Zapata-Vega)Intermittent Neuroleptic Long-Term Treatment in Schizophrenia: State of the Art (W Gaebel)Organic Mental Disorders: Auto-Aggressive Behavior in Mentally Retarded Persons: A Developmental Psychiatric Approach (A Dosen)Panic, Obsessive Compulsive and Other Anxiety Related Disorders: PTSD in Children and War: A Phenomenological Study and a Follow-Up in a Refugee Camp in Zagreb (M Grappe)Long-Term Management of Panic Disorder (J R De La Fuente)Eating Disorders: Risk Factors for an Unfavorable Course of Bulimia Nervosa: What Future Should Patients Expect (M M Fichter et al.)Disorders Associated with Physical Conditions: Anxiety Pre- and Post-Surgery: An Evaluation in Laparoscopic Surgery (R Fahrer et al.)An International Study of Primary Care Mental Disorders: WHO Collaborative Project on “Psychological Problems in General Health Care” (T B Ustun & N Sartorius)Treatment Approaches: Cognitive Psychotherapy with the Difficult Patient (C Perris & L Skagerlind)Africa, The Middle East, Asia and Australia: Problems of Clinical Typology and Prognosis of PTSD in Afghan Veterans (P V Morozov et al.)Changing Scene of Urban Violence in India (S Sharma)National Epidemiological Survey on Mental Disorders in China (Y-C Shen et al.)Public Policy Issues: Urban Violence in the United States (E Sorel) Readership: Psychiatrists and other mental health professionals.