An outline of the development of psychiatry in Greece

Ploumpidis, D; Evans, N.J.R.

doi:10.1177/0957154x9300401404

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“…Under the Ottoman Empire, various foundations were set up which served more as places for treatment and rehabilitation and less so as places of imprisonment (Ploumpidis and Evans 1993 ).…”

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A Brief Historical Overview of Madness in Social Psychiatry

Stylianidis

2016

Social and Community Psychiatry

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The defi nition of madness and how it has been dealt with in different historical periods establish the social, cultural and institutional foundations for the emergence of psychiatry as a separate scientifi c discipline and the development and establishment of the schools of social and community psychiatry. This chapter examines the historical background of psychiatry and mental health from the viewpoint of the change in the social and scientifi c handling of madness and the interplay of wider cultural and social processes. This historical development begins in antiquity, continues with the emergence of asylums and the examination of "nervous disorders" in the Victorian age through the development of measures to promote mental health taken between WWI and WWII and the wider mental health movements which emerged in both Europe and the USA and came to fruition in the modern age and concludes with us highlighting contemporary issues, confl icts and concerns.

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“…Under the Ottoman Empire, various foundations were set up which served more as places for treatment and rehabilitation and less so as places of imprisonment (Ploumpidis and Evans 1993 ).…”

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A Brief Historical Overview of Madness in Social Psychiatry

Stylianidis

2016

Social and Community Psychiatry

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“…Only in 1887 a second psychiatric hospital was founded in Greece, the Dromokaition of Athens. 1,2,3 In its long history we can remark a strong local character of patients' admissions from Corfu and Ionian Islands, and later from the proximate western Greece. 4 We remark a long process of improvements.…”

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Diagnoses in the Psychiatric Hospital of Kerkyra (Corfu) (1838-2000)

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“…Dromokaition Hospital was founded at a most convenient time. It was a time when the need for the care of the mentally ill in the capital was a subject of attention and concern by the Athenian society [ 1 , 2 ]. A rich benefactor from the island of Chios, Zorzis Dromokaitis (1805–1880), provided the necessary funds for the purpose.…”

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“…The number of patients admitted steadily increased, reaching 121 by the end of 1900. According to the French psychiatrist Lucien Libert, in the early 1900s, 100 new patients were admitted and an overall of 300 would be treated in Dromokaition every year [ 6 , 7 ]. An increase is also evident, especially from 1915 and thenceforth, in the number of patients admitted (Table 1 ).…”

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Dromokaition Psychiatric Hospital of Athens: from its establishment in 1887 to the era of deinstitutionalization

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Ploumpidis

Tsiamis

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Ann Gen Psychiatry

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Dromokaition Psychiatric Hospital opened its doors in 1887, following the donation made by Zorzis Dromokaitis from the island of Chios. Private donations and all forms of charities had contributed to a large extent in the establishment of hospitals across Greece, during the late 19th and the early 20th century. Dromokaition was one of them but it was also unique, as it was the first psychiatric hospital in Athens, admitting patients from every part of the country. This paper aimed at highlighting the long service of the institution through the different historical periods the country went through. We present the chronicle of its foundation, the development of its inner structure, and the medical and organizational influences which it received, along the way. The therapeutic methods used during the first decades of its operation reflected the corresponding European standards of the time. As a model institution from its foundation, it followed closely the prevailing European guidelines, throughout its historical path, either as an independent institution or as an integrated one within the National Health Service.

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An outline of the development of psychiatry in Greece

Cited by 7 publications

References 2 publications

A Brief Historical Overview of Madness in Social Psychiatry

A Brief Historical Overview of Madness in Social Psychiatry

Diagnoses in the Psychiatric Hospital of Kerkyra (Corfu) (1838-2000)

Dromokaition Psychiatric Hospital of Athens: from its establishment in 1887 to the era of deinstitutionalization

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