tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11437777617489759782011-12-19T20:57:24.592+02:00psi-action-enEnglish version of the Greek blog: psi-action.blogspot.com ~
e-mail: psi-action@hotmail.comPost.Scriptum.Inter-Action.noreply@blogger.comBlogger171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1143777761748975978.post-43452013116795591222011-12-19T20:55:00.002+02:002011-12-19T20:57:24.710+02:00Greek woes drive up suicide rate to highest in Europe
Experts attribute rise to the country's economic crisis following release of statistics that show a 40% jump since last year
A homeless man begs for money in Athens.
The suicide rate in Greece has reached a pan-European record high, with experts attributing the rise to the country's economic crisis.
Painful austerity measures and a seemingly endless economic drama is exacting a deadly Post.Scriptum.Inter-Action.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1143777761748975978.post-46024653469690134222011-11-03T22:02:00.000+02:002011-11-03T22:02:49.691+02:00Social Firms Europe (CEFEC): Declaration of Support and SolidarityPost.Scriptum.Inter-Action.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1143777761748975978.post-69973583332593184832011-10-18T21:23:00.001+02:002011-10-18T21:27:35.468+02:00Evidence on health effects of financial crisis in Greece
NEWS RELEASE: Evidence on health effects of financial crisis in Greece Post.Scriptum.Inter-Action.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1143777761748975978.post-42444625363898782012011-09-25T17:33:00.006+02:002011-10-05T18:35:09.594+02:00FEARP: "Apropos of Political Measures in the Greek Economical Crisis"DECLARACIÓN: A PROPOSITO DE LAS MEDIDAS POLITICAS ANTE LA CRISIS ECONOMICA EN GRECIA.
Post.Scriptum.Inter-Action.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1143777761748975978.post-39920648932597800392011-09-08T00:47:00.005+02:002011-09-08T01:08:08.435+02:00Greece: Experts warn against cuts in mental health
Mental healthcare experts on Tuesday cautioned against funding cutbacks to psychiatric facilities, invoking a study which found that 22 percent of people facing financial difficulties suffer from some form of mental distress and that the unemployed are at much greater risk than people who work of presenting symptoms of depression.
The findings of the study, which was conducted over the Post.Scriptum.Inter-Action.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1143777761748975978.post-67417612993039665772011-06-05T14:19:00.001+02:002011-06-05T14:19:34.172+02:00Children with Disabilities in Greek Institutions
Read the full report here
Post.Scriptum.Inter-Action.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1143777761748975978.post-72545900077124625092011-02-19T18:27:00.003+02:002011-09-08T01:06:54.545+02:00Advocacy and social exclusion in mental health: A global challenge *
Recently, another “scandal” emerged from the asylum’s labyrinth of Mental Hospital of Dromocaiteion in Athens: Violation of human rights of mentally ill persons, limitation of their contractual power as workers in a small social firm, decrease of the quality of care and treatment for socially excluded people suffering from mental disorders. We are witnessing anPost.Scriptum.Inter-Action.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1143777761748975978.post-69060566895128425902010-09-26T22:24:00.008+03:002011-09-08T01:08:42.335+02:00Island of Outcasts
Island of Outcasts (1990) Director: Jane Gabriel
"The Greek mental institution of Leros, housed on the island of the same name, has received significant journalistic attention. In September of 1989, the London Observer printed a front page account of the hospital, describing it as a "concentration camp." Following the British report, a barrage of Greek press about the Post.Scriptum.Inter-Action.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1143777761748975978.post-4178902699713014812010-06-12T18:15:00.004+03:002011-09-08T01:05:29.882+02:00Up In the Air - Psychiatric Health Services
The structures most strongly affected by the economic crisis since 2008 are those of mental health care, created under the psychiatric reform program and passed under the authority of the State over the last five years.
The policies of deinstitutionalisation are in danger of being shipwrecked
The future of hundreds of patients who are accommodated in hostels or sheltered apartments, and Post.Scriptum.Inter-Action.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1143777761748975978.post-71399720693985461062010-03-21T19:02:00.009+02:002011-09-08T01:09:15.800+02:00Leros: Freedom is Curative (w/ english subtitles)
Director: Andreas LoukakosDir. of Photography: Stephane CattanEditing: Stephane CattanProducer: Noredin Mokassabi2003
Post.Scriptum.Inter-Action.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1143777761748975978.post-25824667579025915952010-02-18T19:39:00.006+02:002011-09-08T01:04:35.715+02:00John Henderson obituary
Psychiatrist, reformer and adviser to Greece on mental health
Henderson was an early pioneer of social psychiatry
John Henderson, who has died aged 80, was an influential figure in psychiatry, mental health and human rights around the world. Long after official retirement, he continued his work with startling energy through a vast array of voluntary and non-governmental organisations Post.Scriptum.Inter-Action.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1143777761748975978.post-61548182552635544362010-01-29T16:46:00.005+02:002011-09-08T01:03:59.661+02:00Mental Health Europe’s MessageMental Health Europe’s Message for the European Year 2010 for
Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion
Research has shown clear bidirectional links between mental health and poverty. People experiencing poverty are particularly vulnerable towards developing mental health problems. Conversely people with existing mental health problems are more likely to experience Post.Scriptum.Inter-Action.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1143777761748975978.post-67816741452228502082009-07-02T20:25:00.010+03:002011-09-08T01:09:42.442+02:00BBC: Greek mental care failures exposed
BBC news: Greek mental care failures exposed
By Chloe Hadjimatheou
BBC World Service, Athens
Twenty years after a scandal erupted over the appalling conditions in which psychiatric patients were kept in Greece, the BBC has seen evidence that in some parts of the system little has changed.
The European Commission has warned Greece that if it does not come up with roadmap forPost.Scriptum.Inter-Action.noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1143777761748975978.post-58348274277552931822009-01-04T16:08:00.010+02:002011-09-08T01:10:17.908+02:00ARE YOU CLOSING DOWN THE PSYCHOSOCIAL REHABILITATION UNITS MR. MINISTER OF HEALTH ?
Till the 80’s, in Greece, thousands of people with mental health problems were confined to large psychiatric institutions. When the horrific living conditions at the Leros Asylum became known to the public, there was an international outcry, and the European Union forced our country to reform its psychiatric services.
Nowadays, thanks to the efforts of the mental Post.Scriptum.Inter-Action.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1143777761748975978.post-89864496050531108032009-01-04T16:03:00.008+02:002011-09-08T01:00:22.590+02:00Mental Health Services: Call for Ιmmediate Αction
It is well known that in Greece, up until the decade of the 1980s, mental health services were provided exclusively in institutions, under unacceptable conditions of patient care, a situation which stigmatised the country in the international view.
From the end of the decade of the 1980s, with the economic support of the European Union (Regulation 815/84 concerning psychiatric reform in Greece)Post.Scriptum.Inter-Action.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1143777761748975978.post-82028464985201949062009-01-03T20:48:00.006+02:002011-09-08T01:01:11.404+02:00Mental Health Europe calls on the Greek government to put an end to the dramatic situation in the Mental Health sector !
MENTAL HEALTH EUROPE – SANTE MENTALE EUROPE aisbl Boulevard Clovis 7, B-1000 Brussels Tel +32 2 280 04 68 - Fax +32 2 280 16 04 Email: info@mhe-sme.org www.mhe-sme.org
PRESS RELEASE For immediate release Brussels, 27 November 2008
Mental Health Europe calls on the Greek government to put an end to the dramatic situation in the Mental Post.Scriptum.Inter-Action.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1143777761748975978.post-22180877013806744902009-01-03T20:45:00.006+02:002011-09-08T01:00:50.532+02:00"The Greek miracle" The beginning of the end of the Psychiatric Reform in Greece
More than twenty years have passed since the unacceptable situation of the Leros’ asylum, and by extension, of the horrific living conditions of people with mental health problems, who remained confined in the psychiatric institutions in our country for decades, raising the international outcry and the intense reactions of European Union.
At that time, the pictures from the Leros’ asylum were Post.Scriptum.Inter-Action.noreply@blogger.com1