THE PSYCHIATRY: A SCHOLASTIC PHILOSOPHY OR A CLINICAL MEDICINE?


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The analysis of the current state of the Russian system of psychiatric care has been carried out; its main shortcomings have been highlighted: the arbitrariness of diagnosing mental disorders, unduly widespread use of antipsychotics, the poor condition of clinical guidelines, the low quality of professional education. Ways of reforming clinical psychiatry are proposed.

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Yuri P Sivolap

First Moscow State University, department of psychiatry and narcology

Email: yura-sivolap@yandex.ru
119991, Trubetskaya Str., 8 (2), Moscow

Anna A Portnova

Serbsky Federal Medical Research Center of Psychiatry and Narcology

Moscow, 109559, Kropotkinsky per., 23

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