Английская Википедия:Global Initiative on Psychiatry

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Шаблон:Use shortened footnotes Шаблон:Infobox organization Global Initiative on Psychiatry (GIP) is an international foundation for mental health reform which took part in the campaign against the political abuse of psychiatry in the USSR.[1] The organization is of NGO type.Шаблон:Sfn

Headquartered in Hilversum, GIP has regional centers in Tbilisi, Sofia, and Vilnius, and a country office in Dushanbe.Шаблон:Sfn

GIP is a main contributor to improving psychiatric care in countries of the former Soviet Union as well as Central and Eastern Europe.[2] It has expanded its focus and as of 2010 is including projects in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean.Шаблон:Sfn

GIP also focuses on the political abuse of psychiatry throughout the world[3] and human rights monitoring.Шаблон:Sfn

History

20 December 1980 saw the formation in Paris of the International Association on the Political Use of Psychiatry (IAPUP) whose first secretary was Dr Gérard Bles of France.Шаблон:Sfn Since the Congress in Honolulu in 1978, he has inspired the movement against the use of psychiatry for political ends.Шаблон:Sfn The organization campaigned against the political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet UnionШаблон:Sfn by leading efforts within national and international psychiatric organizations to eradicate this systematic abuse.Шаблон:Sfn The IAPUP had no connection with any political group nor with antipsychiatry.Шаблон:Sfn The organization brought together and coordinated independent groups dedicated to the struggle against political abuse of psychiatry and composed of psychiatrists and human rights activists from Canada, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and West Germany.Шаблон:Sfn During its first two decades IAPUP, investigated the accusations of oppressive exploitation in a number of countries such as Argentina, Bulgaria, Chile, Czechoslovakia, Cuba, Eastern Germany, Hungary, Romania, South Africa, the Netherlands, and Yugoslavia.Шаблон:CN The publication of the IAPUP was Information Bulletin.Шаблон:Sfn The IAPUP included the following participating committees:Шаблон:Sfn

  1. Working Group on the Internment of Dissenters in Mental Hospitals;
  2. Committee of French Psychiatrists Against the Use of Psychiatry for Political Purposes;
  3. German Association Against the Political Abuse of Psychiatry;
  4. International Podrabinek Fund;
  5. Swiss Association Against Psychiatric Abuse for Political Purposes.

In 1986, Robert van Voren became General Secretary of the IAPUP.Шаблон:Sfn After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the financing of the IAPUP headed by Robert van Voren ceased until it adopted program of broad compromises and, correspondingly, the opposite name of The International Association for the Abolition and Prevention of Political Psychiatry, or Geneva Initiative on Psychiatry.Шаблон:Sfn In 2005, the organization was renamed Global Initiative on Psychiatry (GIP).[4] From 1995 to 2000, Chair of the Geneva Initiative on Psychiatry was James Birley.Шаблон:Sfn

Leadership

The board is composed of professionals from some twenty countries.Шаблон:Sfn Chief Executive of the Global Initiative on Psychiatry is Robert van Voren,[5] a Honorary Fellow of the British Royal College of Psychiatrists and Honorary Member of the Ukrainian Psychiatric Association.Шаблон:Sfn In 2005, he was knighted by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands for his work as a human rights activist.Шаблон:Sfn He is a professor of Soviet and post-Soviet Studies in the Ilia State University in Tbilisi (Georgia) and in the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas (Lithuania).[6]

Approach

The Global Initiative on Psychiatry uses a local approach to helping the mentally ill in underprivileged countries around the world. In Robert van Voren's words, their idea is that "mental health services should be locally empowered, locally adapted, community based, user oriented, and focused on keeping people with mental illness in society, instead of taking them out."Шаблон:Sfn The organization has been involved in deinstitutionalizing mental health services for children in post-Communist countries.Шаблон:Sfn The GIP dedicates itself to promoting the necessary reforms to implement "humane, ethical, and effective mental health care throughout the world."Шаблон:Sfn Reports by the Global Initiative on Psychiatry are often comprehensive and consider the treatment options.Шаблон:Sfn The organization has campaigned with substantial success against poor mental health practices abroad, especially in China and the former communist states.Шаблон:Sfn Robert van Voren's contribution to reform of forensic psychiatry in states of the former Soviet Union is widely recognized.Шаблон:Sfn

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  1. ↑ Шаблон:Harvnb; Шаблон:Harvnb; Шаблон:Harvnb
  2. ↑ Шаблон:Harvnb; Шаблон:Harvnb
  3. ↑ Шаблон:Harvnb; Шаблон:Harvnb
  4. ↑ Шаблон:Harvnb; Шаблон:Harvnb
  5. ↑ Шаблон:Harvnb; Шаблон:Harvnb
  6. ↑ Шаблон:Harvnb; Шаблон:Harvnb
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