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  • What do psychiatrists think about primary mental health competencies among family doctors? A WPA–WONCA global survey

  • R.M.K. Ng, T.F. Chan, H. Herrman, C. Dowrick
  • Journal:
    BJPsych International / Volume 18 / Issue 1 / February 2021
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    02 July 2020, pp. 18-22
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    February 2021
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  • People with common mental disorders often seek medical attention from their family doctors. Thus, it is essential for family doctors to possess primary mental health knowledge. The aim of this study was to understand whether psychiatrists endorse the primary mental health competencies identified by the World Organization of Family Doctors and whether they agree that family doctors are demonstrating these competencies. A questionnaire was constructed based on 32 core competencies. Presidents of all World Psychiatric Association member societies were invited to complete the questionnaire or to forward it to local experts. According to the respondents, these competencies are considered relevant yet not sufficiently possessed by typical primary care doctors. Proposals are made to bridge this assumed competency gap.

  • Editorial: political abuse of psychiatry in authoritarian systems

  • J. P. Tobin
  • Journal:
    Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine / Volume 30 / Issue 2 / June 2013
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    23 May 2013, pp. 97-102
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    June 2013
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  • We are painfully aware: Psychiatry in some states of the international community is often used to subvert the political and legal guarantees of the freedom of the individual and to violate seriously his human and legal rights (Daes,1986).

    Objective

    It can be politically convenient to incarcerate political opponents in a psychiatric hospital. It saves any potential political embarrassment that a judicial trial may present. It also undermines the credibility of opponents by labelling them with the stigma of being mentally insane. For this to occur, there has to be the acquiescence of mental health professionals and a subservient legal system.

    Method

    This article examines the abuse of psychiatry in two authoritarian systems, Russia and China.

    Result

    New diagnostic categories such as sluggish schizophrenia were created to facilitate the silencing of dissenters and were a source of self-deception for psychiatrist to placate their consciences as they operated as a tool of oppression on behalf of a political system.

    Conclusion

    If we do not know the past, we will be condemned to repeat it.