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The role of psychotherapy in the treatment of acute mental disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2011

Antonio Andreoli*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Psichiatria, Facoltá di Medicina dell'Università di Ginevra, Servizio d'accueil, d'urgence et de liaison psychiatriques, Ospedali Universitari di Ginevra, Svizzera
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Address for correspondence: Professor A. Andreoli, Service d'accueil, d'urgence et de liaison psychiatriques. HCUG. 24 Michéli-du-Crest, 1211 Genève (Suisse). Fax: +41-22 3728599 E-mail: [email protected]

Summary

This work is directed to further investigate the significant relevance of psychotherapy to better management of acute psychiatric disorders. Over the last years, there was impressive increase of the amount of psychiatric patients referred to emergency and in-patient treatment and such increase allmost resulted from subjects with acute emotional discontrol associated with affective, personality and stress related disorders. According to such change of the clinical scene of contemporary psychiatry, more attention and funding are needed in the field of acute treatment services and combined treatment innovation and research is become a major challenge for community psychiatry. A real progress in the field is not, however a simple matter of psychoterapy technology transference. While several recent studies suggest that well designed combined treatment is cost-effective in these patients, new nosographic, management and dynamic models are required for succesful development of new crisis intervention programs within general psychiatry services.

Type
Invited Paper
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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