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One World, One Language: Paving the Way to Better Perspectives for Mental Health	p. 1
Strategies for Psychiatry in a Changing World	p. 5
Important Issues for Psychiatry	p. 11
The WHO Contribution to World Psychiatry and Mental Health	p. 15
Challenges to the Development of Mental Health Care	p. 21
Cultural Anchors and Social Change	p. 26
Culture and Mental Illness: The 1990s	p. 35
Nonconventional Approaches to the Treatment of Mental Illness	p. 41
The Present Status and Prospect of Psychiatry in China	p. 45
Perspectives of Primary Mental Health Care in Latin America	p. 48
Middle East Culture: Mental Health and Mental Illness	p. 55
The Psychological Contract in a Global Economy	p. 64
Mental Health of Low-Income Populations	p. 66
Consequences of Poverty on Mental Health Services	p. 71
Approaches to Organizing Mental Health Services in Developing Countries with Limited Resources	p. 75
The Emergence of Human Rights: Protecting Persons with Mental Disorders	p. 79
Human Behavior and Disasters	p. 84
Mental Health of People and the Effects of War on Children	p. 88
The Application of Psychiatry to Violence Prevention	p. 94
Torture - A Challenge to the Psychiatric Profession	p. 99
Does Our New Language Have Any Grammar?	p. 105
CIDI 2.1: Responding to the Need for Standardization of Diagnostic Assessment in Psychiatric Epidemiology	p. 108
A Perspective from Family Medicine on the Classification of Mental Disorders	p. 113
Reflections on Mental Order and Disorder	p. 117
Normality, Subsyndromal Depressive States, and Syndromal Depressive Disorders	p. 120
The Concept and Boundaries of Personality Disorders	p. 122
Dementia and other Mental Illness in the Elderly	p. 128
Psychiatric Disorders in Child and Adolescent Offspring of Schizophrenic and Bipolar Patients as New Targets for Intervention	p. 133
Mental Health Problems Related to HIV Infection	p. 137
Schizophrenia	p. 142
The History and the Idea of Vulnerability to Schizophrenia	p. 148
The Current Status of the Neurodevelopmental Hypothesis of Schizophrenia	p. 154
The Boundaries of Schizotypal Disorders and Schizophrenia	p. 164
Methodological Aspects of Onset Research in Schizophrenia: The Mannheim Study	p. 170
Is Early Intervention in First Episode Psychosis an Economically Viable Method of Improving Outcome?	p. 184
Patterns of Communication in Schizophrenia and Depression	p. 195
Using Language Data in Explaining Psychotic Speech: A Linguistic Evaluation	p. 200
The Immunological Biology of Schizophrenia	p. 206
Does Dysplasia Cause Anatomical Dysconnectivity in Schizophrenia?	p. 217
Post-Mortem Correlates of Disturbed Cerebral Asymmetry in Schizophrenia	p. 225
The Impact of Coping Abilities on the Development of Schizophrenia	p. 228
A List of Essential Psychotherapies	p. 240
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: Changes over the Past Century	p. 247
Interprofessional Communication in Mental Health	p. 250
Rational Thinking, Is It Easy or Hard?	p. 255
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