1Research Division, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore 2Boston University, United States of America Address for Correspondence: Prof Chong Siow Ann, Research Division, Institute of Mental Health, Buangkok Green Medical Park, 10 Buangkok View, Singapore 539747. Email: [email protected] Last year, the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) celebrated its 85th anniversary. From its origins in...

OBJECTIVES To discuss developments in Ontario mental health reform, describe general psychiatric services in contrast to tertiary services, describe guidelines for the training of general psychiatrists, and suggest what changes may be required to develop an integrated mental health system (IMHS). METHOD We review the Ontario government's recent blueprint for mental health reform and the Canad...

BACKGROUND Treatment coverage for mental disorders ranges from less than 10% to more than 90% across low- and middle-income (LAMI) countries. Studies have yet to examine whether the capacity of mental health systems might be adversely affected by the burdens of unrelated conditions such as HIV/AIDS. AIMS To examine whether the magnitude of disease burden from communicable, perinatal, maternal...

Mending Minds. By Paul Winterton. Peter Davies, 1938, 8/6. This book is the result of an investigation undertaken on behalf of one of our great daily newspapers into the conditions obtaining in the Public Mental Hospitals of England and Wales and the subject of mental disease and its treatment in general. Whatever was the original intention of the investigation, the book actually constitutes pe...

IN THE UK, service users who present a high risk of harm to the general public and have been deemed either unmanageable in settings of lesser security or inappropriately placed in the prison system are treated in high-security psychiatric hospitals. Most of the patients in this category have a clinical diagnosis of mental illness, and many also present with significant features of personality d...

Psychiatry services are being initiated and delivered in the general hospitals. Though this is being achieved at a slow pace, nevertheless, the trend is being set. Community programmes lor the delivery of psychiatric services are also being planned. The delivery of mental health care services at the primary health centres and the peripheral areas would perhaps be strengthened it the role of Gen...

THE problem of the aged in Mental Hospitals is universal, and is becoming more acute as time goes by. Mental disease is a tragedy at any time of life, but coming on in the later years it presents a particularly saddening picture. The majority of these patients have led a busy and useful existence, and those who were once the props and pillars of their age and generation are now a burden on the ...