This report traces the first year's experience in community psychiatry in a developing
country. Malaysia, where a group of psychiatrists decided to offer their services as …

HE reasons for the referral of patients to a psychiatrist are very different from T those of the
other medical disciplines. Society's concept of the psychiatrist and the psychiatric patient is …

Mental health services have undergone changes all over the world away from the traditional
custodial care in mental institutions towards more effective and comprehensive care in the …

The 3-part model of consultant, intermediary consultant, and client consultee is applied to
the transcultural aspects of community psychiatry. Varieties of cross-cultural problems are …

Malaysia is a developing country with a new psychiatric service and the brunt of mental
health care is still borne by the indigenous healers of the three main cultures. Nearly half of …

This article reviews the recent developments in community mental health services, placing
them in the context of the overall health delivery system in the country, and outlines the …

Community psychiatry is well developed in many western countries. However, this
psychiatric subspecialty has only recently been officially recognized and estab lished in …

A Lundbeck visiting professorship organised through the Royal College of Psychiatrists
gave me the opportunity to spend three weeks, in January 1996, at the National Institute …

The authors describe a predominantly Filipino village in Hawaii that underwent drastic
economic and social changes without disintegrating. They conclude that with the right …

The need to confine and restrain psychotic patients at the turn of the last century saw the
building of a few large asylums which soon became overcrowded with the growth of the …