Mental Health Services in Malta are presently at crossroads, because they are in the stage of increasing and strengthening the community services and considering closing the main psychiatric inpatient facility and replacing it with a new hospital. For proper planning of such changes, and ideal approach is that of basing these plans on results of population based epidemiological findings on rate...

andrzej Cechnicki1, Anna Wojciechowska1, Miguel Valdez2: Community Psychiatry Section, Chair of Psychiatry, Collegium Medicum, Jagiellonian University, 2 Departamento de Psiquiatria Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon; Correspondence address: Andrzej Cechnicki: Community Psychiatry Section, Chair of Psychiatry, Collegium Medicum, Jagiellonian University, 2 Sikorskiego Pl. Apt. 8, 31-115 Cracow, ...

Since antiquity, mental illnesses have proven challenging for individuals suffering with them, for families who wish to support them, and for communities in which they live. Evolution in the development of community services and supports has been predicated on the understanding or interpretation of mental illness, aided by acceptance and innovation, but often anchored in ignorance, stigma, and ...

In describing the, by now, thirty-year experience in Trieste, we would like to deal in very practical terms with the question of “what to do” in those places where there exists the problem of superseding the psychiatric hospital and building a network of community services able to serve the needs of the population. In our view, the therapeutic promise inherent in the transformation process of c...