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Mental health profile of Greece

Part of: BJPsych International Country Profiles Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

George Christodoulou ,
Dimitris Ploumpidis ,
Nikos Christodoulou  and
Dimitris Anagnostopoulos
George Christodoulou
Affiliation:
Psychiatry, Honorary President, Hellenic Psychiatric Association, Greece, email gchristodoulou@ath.forthnet.gr
Dimitris Ploumpidis
Affiliation:
Psychiatry, First Psychiatric Department of Athens University
Nikos Christodoulou
Affiliation:
University College London Hospital, London, UK
Dimitris Anagnostopoulos
Affiliation:
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, First Psychiatric Department of Athens University, Greece
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Abstract

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Since the mid-1980s, a profound reform in the organisation of mental health provision has been taking place in Greece (Madianos & Christodoulou, 2007; Christodoulou, 2009). The aim has been to modernise the outdated system of care (Christodoulou, 1970), which was based on in-patient asylum-like treatment, the beginning of which can be roughly dated to the second half of the 19th century (Christodoulou et al, 2010).

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International Psychiatry , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , July 2010 , pp. 64 - 67
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