Preface -- A Brief History of Social Psychiatry -- Psychiatric Epidemiology and its Applications in Social Psychiatry -- Global Mental Health -- Psychiatric Reform in Europe -- Psychiatric Reform in Greece -- Psychoanalysis and public psychiatric care -- Mental Health Promotion: good practice in community settings -- Social Exclusion and Mental Health in Metropolitan Athens -- Psychosocial Rehabilitation and the Recovery Model: Applications in residential units in the community -- Mobile Mental Health Units in the Cyclades Islands: Mental Health Care for Adults -- Mobile Mental Health Units in the Cyclades Islands: Mental Health Care for Children and Adolescents -- A Modern Day Care Centre in Athens -- ACT and Home Care -- Counselling and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in community settings -- Mental Health Care of itinerant populations in the community -- Modern Technologies and Social Psychiatry -- Domestic Violence and Mental Health Services in the community: Management and Evaluation -- Sexuality in individuals with severe mental illness at PSR units -- Evaluating Social Psychiatry Services -- Implications of the Socioeconomic Crisis for Staff in Community PSR units: the case of an NGO -- Staff Evaluation and Organizational Culture in Mental Health Units -- Participation and Empowerment of Users and Families -- Involuntary Hospitalization: Legal context, Epidemiology and Outcome -- Mental Health and the Financial Crisis.

This book presents the basic theoretical and historical concepts and it describes current perspectives and data, focusing on good practices in community psychiatry in Greece and in other parts of Europe. Concepts such as the biopsychosocial model, psychiatric reform, psychosocial rehabilitation and the recovery model, as well as new case management models are approached from a critical, anthropocentric perspective. The current socioeconomic crisis in Europe brings with it new realities in mental health systems. New forms of social suffering are forcing the psychiatric community to re-examine what is considered normal. In order to respond to the complexity of the newly emerging needs, social and community psychiatry has been compelled to broaden the objectives of intervention and research alike, developing new and dynamic relations with complementary scientific fields such as social anthropology, psychoanalysis and microeconomics. The present work is the result of collaboration between professionals from across these different fields. .