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Tijdschrift Voor Psychiatrie 2019The digitization of society has an increasing impact on healthcare in general and, therefore, also on psychiatry.
AIM: To provide an overview of digital... (Review)Review
The digitization of society has an increasing impact on healthcare in general and, therefore, also on psychiatry.
AIM: To provide an overview of digital developments and their influence on the design of future professional psychiatric care.
METHOD: With the help of examples from literature, show how digitization will influence diagnostic procedures as well as psychiatric treatment.
RESULTS: Digitization will have a major impact on psychiatric diagnostics and treatment. For example, psychiatric diagnostics will be strengthened by continuous monitoring of behaviour with digital wearables and the collection of large amounts of personal data. How we deal with these new sources of information needs to be developed in everyday practice. Psychiatric treatments with E-health, online therapies, apps and virtual reality are being developed rapidly. There is increasing evidence concerning the efficacy of these treatments in a variety of patient groups.
CONCLUSION: The digital revolution in psychiatric health services has just begun. To maximise the benefits of digitization for psychiatry, it is necessary to connect technological possibilities with well-founded scientific knowledge, professional expertise, expectations and needs of patients, and clear legal instructions.Topics: Humans; Informatics; Internet; Psychiatry
PubMed: 31180572
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The International Journal of Social... 1996Culture remains an ambiguous concept for psychiatry: deprecated by the assumption that it is secondary to biomedical reality, yet at the same time some notion of... (Review)
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Culture remains an ambiguous concept for psychiatry: deprecated by the assumption that it is secondary to biomedical reality, yet at the same time some notion of 'culture' has served to represent the modern against the primitive. Contemporary clinical understandings of culture derive from imperial medicine which had applied the accepted distinction between the biological form and the cultural content of psychopathology to local illnesses which could not easily be fitted into the European nosology. The later concept of culture-bound pathology, like the psychoanalysts' 'modal personality', only imperfectly escaped from evaluative assumptions of 'development', but it is difficult to argue that psychiatry provided British colonial administrations with any significant ideological justification.
Topics: Biological Psychiatry; Culture; Europe; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; Humans; Mental Disorders; Psychiatry; Psychoanalysis; United States
PubMed: 9023608
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Academic Psychiatry : the Journal of... Apr 2021
Topics: Humans; Mental Disorders; Psychiatry
PubMed: 33580880
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International Review of Psychiatry... Mar 2020Psychiatry's practice in Latin America is unique as it comes from the junction of the indigenous cultures and their conceptualization of mental disorders, the European... (Review)
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Psychiatry's practice in Latin America is unique as it comes from the junction of the indigenous cultures and their conceptualization of mental disorders, the European colonizers who brought with them the early modern psychiatric conceptualizations and, later, the Africans who were forced to migrate to the continent as slaves and introduced elements of the African culture. With this background in mind it is easier to understand why Latin America is a multiethnic and multicultural continent. In order to be able to practice in this particular context, Psychiatry should take into account all the aforementioned elements in the design of its educational programmes. Nevertheless, Latin American countries have a tremendous deficit in mental health providers and, as such, are in dire need to strengthen their residency programmes and their recruitment processes in order to be able to meet the needs of the population. This paper sets out to review the current state of psychiatric education in Latin America and describe in more detail the current training programmes available in the region. It also discusses the perceptions of Latin American psychiatric residents regarding their training programmes and presents possible alternatives for the future of training.
Topics: Curriculum; Education, Medical; Humans; Latin America; Psychiatry
PubMed: 31476943
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Biological Psychiatry May 2023
Topics: Humans; Biological Psychiatry; Psychiatry; Mental Disorders
PubMed: 36893879
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Revue Medicale Suisse Jan 2018Children of patients with psychiatric disorders are at higher risk to develop a psychiatric illness. In addition, phases of crisis and hospitalization of the parent are...
Children of patients with psychiatric disorders are at higher risk to develop a psychiatric illness. In addition, phases of crisis and hospitalization of the parent are often traumatizing to the children, especially during childhood. Although a specific offer to face these issues is compulsory in some countries, such is not the case in Switzerland. In this paper we describe the implementation of a special offer for children of parents with mental illness (Famille +) in the service of general psychiatry at the Department of psychiatry of the Lausanne University hospital in Switzerland. We will also discuss the development and implementation of the Joint Crisis Plan, a collaborative tool where psychiatric patients and clinicians define the strategies that should be applied in case of crisis, which strengthens the empowerment of patients and their participation to decisions about their treatment.
Topics: Child; Hospitalization; Humans; Mental Disorders; Power, Psychological; Psychiatry; Switzerland
PubMed: 29337459
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Psychodynamic Psychiatry 2021The authors describe the practice of psychodynamic psychiatry in the Philippines. They review features of contemporary psychodynamic psychiatry, the state of...
The authors describe the practice of psychodynamic psychiatry in the Philippines. They review features of contemporary psychodynamic psychiatry, the state of psychodynamic psychiatry in training programs, and its integration in national professional societies. Despite psychodynamic psychiatry's wide acceptance in the professional community in the Philippines and neighboring Southeast Asian countries, delivery of care to over 110 million residents of the archipelago requires creativity given the small number of psychiatrists. The authors discuss how psychodynamic psychiatry impacts the national mental health scene and propose future directions involving forging international linkages.
Topics: Humans; Internship and Residency; Philippines; Psychiatry
PubMed: 34870462
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Psychological Medicine Jul 2021Precision psychiatry is currently described as an approach that would bring significant advance to psychiatric clinical practice. Theaim of this article is to...
Precision psychiatry is currently described as an approach that would bring significant advance to psychiatric clinical practice. Theaim of this article is to investigate Precision Psychiatry's promise for the future; should we substantially invest in this new approach? Thearticle is based on a review of the literature and reports a conceptual analysis. A critical examination of Precision Psychiatry's foundationsshows us that its fundaments are obsolete and flawed: we cannot reduce mental suffering to essences in biology. It is problematic to statethat biological processes hold and capture qualia and meaning, and in themselves and without context would hold and capture somethinglike abnormality. Despite its good efforts, precision psychiatry does not represent a sufficiently promising alternative to the phenotyping thatcomes with the current classification systems.
Topics: Humans; Mental Disorders; Precision Medicine; Psychiatry
PubMed: 33612128
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Der Nervenarzt Dec 2019The breathtaking technological progress in the field of mobile computing, smartphones and wearables offers new opportunities for psychiatric research and therapy.... (Review)
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The breathtaking technological progress in the field of mobile computing, smartphones and wearables offers new opportunities for psychiatric research and therapy. Wearables enable not only the objective assessment of psychiatric symptoms in real time and everyday life but using continuous monitoring and analysis of relevant parameters can also define important situations, contexts and timing during which extended assessment strategies and real-life interventions can be implemented. The momentary effect of inner city green space exposure on well-being, motivational behavior feedback and geofencing for the detection of drinking episodes are used as examples to illustrate the core benefits of real-time analyses and feedback from wearables for psychiatric research and therapy.
Topics: Humans; Mental Disorders; Psychiatry; Wearable Electronic Devices
PubMed: 31641793
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Psychiatrische Praxis Apr 2019
Topics: Germany; Humans; Psychiatry
PubMed: 30943573
DOI: 10.1055/a-0860-4844