The Long-Term Treatment of Functional Psychoses : Needed Areas of Research (Paperback)

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. Retterstøl; 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.