Proceedings of the X World Congress of Psychiatry, Madrid, Spain, August 23-28, 1996

Introduction - one world, one language. Part 1 Psychiatry and mental health in a diverse and changing world: strategies for psychiatry in a changing world important issues for psychiatry the WHO contribution to world psychiatry and mental health challenges to the development of mental health. Part 2 Culture and mental illness: cultural anchors and social change culture and mental illness - the 1990s nonconventional approaches to the treatment of mental illness present status and prospect of psychiatry in China perspectives of primary mental health care in Latin America Middle East culture - mental health and mental illness. Part 3 Economy and mental health: the psychological contract in a global economy mental health of low-income populations consequences of poverty on mental health services approaches to organizing mental health services in developing countries with limited resources. Part 4 Human rights, disasters, violence: emergence of human rights - protecting persons with mental disorders human behaviour and disasters mental health of people and the effects of war on children the application of psychiatry to violence prevention torture - a challenge to the psychiatric profession. Part 5 The common language in diagnosis and epidemiological studies: does our new language have any grammar? CIDI 2.1 - responding to the need for standardization of diagnostic assessment in psychiatric epidemiology a perspective from family medicine on the classification of mental disorders. Part 6 New faces of old diseases: reflections on mental order and disorder normality, subsyndromal depressive states and syndromal depressive disorders concept and boundaries of personality disorders dementia and other mental illness in the elderly psychiatric disorders in child and adolescent offspring of schizophrenic and bipolar patients as new taregets for intervention mental health problems related to HIV infection. Part 7 New perspectives on schizophrenia research and practice: schizophrenia the history and the idea of vulnerability to schizophrenia current status of the neurodevelopmental hypothesis of schizophrenia boundaries of schizotypal disorders and schizophrenia methodological aspects of onset research in schizophrenia is early intervention in first episode psychosis an economically viable method of improving outcome? patterns of communication in schizophrenia and depression using language data in explaining psychotic speech - a linguistic evaluation immunological biology of schizophrenia does dysplasia cause anatomical dysconnectivity in schizophrenia? impact of coping abilities on the development of schizophrenia. Part 8 Challenges to psychotherapy: a list of essential psychotherapies psychoanalysis and psychotherapy - changes over the past century interprofessional communication in mental health epilogue -rational thinking, is it easy or hard?.