Общественная психиатрия — возрождение наследия земских психиатров

Abstract

The purpose of the study : to analyze the reforms of the Russian psychiatry beginning in the zemsky period of public administration, to establish the role in these reforms of public psychiatrists, to determine the purpose and objectives of the special direction of scientific and practical psychiatry called «public psychiatry». Materials and methods : the material for this work was a set of scientific publications on the problems of formation of mental health care in its various historical periods. The analysis of materials is based on the methodology of qualitative research. Results : the analysis of the evolutionary development of the direction of «Public psychiatry» in the period of Zemsky and Soviet psychiatry, as well as in the post-Soviet period. The assessment of the role of public organizations of users of psychiatric care in the new Russia, which are considered as an important additional link of the state system of psychiatric care. Conclusion : is supposed important to use the traditions of the zemsky psychiatry for the further development of public psychiatry.