Ninth International Psychiatric Conference of the Pakistan Psychiatric Society

The psychiatric society

order. As the book progresses, the ratio of Pinelian writing to Postelian commentary steadily increases, to the point where the final chapter consists largely of material from Pinel's Nosographie philosophique (1798) setting out a classification of neuroses which, according to Postel, is little more than a plagiarization of Cullen's work on the same subject. Here the book ends rather abruptly. ...

Psychiatric Training in Pakistan.

High rates of mental illness, particularly depression have been reported in Pakistan. The health system is both under developed and poorly resourced. It is therefore not surprising that psychiatric training is at its very early stages, at both undergraduate and the postgraduate level. In order to look after the mentally ill patients radical changes need to be implemented in training of doctors....

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