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In 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung all started what promised to be either a momentous collaboration and the private friendship of every man’s existence. Six years later they have been sour antagonists, locked in a savage fight that was once as a lot own and emotional because it used to be theoretical undefined. among them stood a tender girl named Sabina Spielrein, who have been either sufferer and lover to Jung and colleague and confidante to Freud earlier than occurring to turn into an cutting edge psychoanalyst herself.
With the narrative energy and emotional influence of significant tragedy, A harmful Method is very unlikely to place down.
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This also resulted in a number of managers begin ‘classified’ into their primary professions, for example nursing, also indicating that a number of people from professions were being brought into management. There was also a new business/commercial culture in the NHS, which led to the policy in the 1980s of ‘contracting out’ or ‘outsourcing’. The clinical work of the NHS was retained in the public sector, but, to reduce costs, support services such as laundry, cleaning and catering were contracted out to private providers.
Whereas before the 19th century treatment for most conditions was almost always offered at home, by the 20th century treatment was gradually being shifted to hospitals, in the public domain. A major consequence of the increasing influence of hospitals was a greater differentiation be tween general practitioners and hospital consultants under the 1911 Act (Honigsbaum, 1979). Increasing specialisation among consultants and the development of a hierarchy were two major factors that were to affect the running of the NHS subsequently.
1. A recent publication by the WHO (Mental Health Atlas; World Health Organization, 2005b) gives a detailed picture of the state of mental health in various nations around the world. 7% of countries. 5%) had initially formulated their mental health policy only in the last decade of the past century. The components of mental health policy described in the Mental Health Atlas (p. 2. These are advocacy, promotion, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation. 2 Components of mental health policy according to the Mental Health Atlas (World Health Organization, 2005b) •• •• •• •• •• Advocacy: to raise awareness and gain political commitment, policy support, social acceptance and health support systems for mental health goals Promotion: enabling people to gain control over the determinants of their mental well-being and to improve it Prevention: organising activities in the community to prevent the occurrence of and progression of mental disorders Treatment: relevant clinical and non-clinical care aimed at reducing the impact of mental disorders and improving the quality of life of patients Rehabilitation: care given to people with mental illness to help them achieve their optimum level of social and psychological functioning 25 bhugra & saxena When one studies the details of existing mental health policies in different countries, it becomes clear that treatment issues take precedence over reduction of stigma, promotion of mental health and patient advocacy.
