Mental health in post-communist countries

Jenkins, Rachel; Klein, Judith; Parker, Camilla

doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7510.173

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“…Interestingly, this trend was not visible in other formerly socialist countries of East Central Europe. Other findings from the region have also suggested increases in psychiatric morbidity (Jenkins, Klein, & Parker, 2005). …”

Section: Reforming Psychiatry In An Age Of Global Mental Healthmentioning

confidence: 93%

Postsocialism, the psy-ences and mental health

Raikhel

Bemme

2016

Transcult Psychiatry

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Over the past decades, the formerly socialist countries of East Central Europe and Eurasia have experienced a range of transformations which bear directly upon the domains of mental health, psychiatry, and psychology. In particular, the disciplines and professions concerned with the human mind, brain, and behavior ("the psy-ences") were strongly affected by sociopolitical changes spanning the state-socialist and postsocialist periods. These disciplines' relationship to the state, their modes of knowledge production, and the epistemic order and subjectivities they contributed to have all undergone dramatic ruptures. In this essay, we trace the literature on these issues across three thematic domains: (a) history and memory; (b) the reform of psychiatry in an era of global mental health; and (c) therapy and self-fashioning. We argue for a closer articulation between the social science and historical literature on socialism and its "posts" and the literature among anthropologists, sociologists, and historians on the sciences of the mind and brain, and we suggest that each of these literatures helps to critically open up and enrich the other.

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Section: Reforming Psychiatry In An Age Of Global Mental Healthmentioning

confidence: 93%

Postsocialism, the psy-ences and mental health

Raikhel

Bemme

2016

Transcult Psychiatry

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“…However, mental health services and systems remain limited, and greater attention is also required on risk-factors for poor mental health such as social exclusion and widening socioeconomic inequalities (Bobak, et al, 2006;Brainerd, 2001;Jenkins, et al, 2005;Jenkins, et al, 2010;McDaid, et al, 2006;Roberts, et al, 2012;Tomov, et al, 2007).…”

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“…The evidence for high levels of stress is seen in the steep increases in male suicide rates and mental disorders that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union (Andreev, Pridemore, Shkolnikov, & Antonova, 2008;Brainerd, 2001;Leon & Shkolnikov, 1998;Pietila & Rytkonen, 2008;Plavinski, Plavinskaya, & Klimov, 2003;Tomkins, et al, 2012;UNICEF, 2001;WHO/Europe, 2013). Even now, post-Soviet societies continue to be characterised by many established risk-factors for poor mental health, such as impoverishment, social instability, isolation and low levels of social welfare, and generally poor quality mental health services (Jenkins, Klein, & Parker, 2005;McDaid, Samyshkin, Jenkins, Potasheva, Nikiforov, & Ali Atun, 2006;Roberts, Abbott, & McKee, 2012;Tomov, Van Voren, Keukens, & Puras, 2007;UNDP, 2011). However, precise evidence on the burden of mental ill-health in the region remains limited (Fister & McKee, 2005;Jenkins, et al, 2005).…”

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Psychological Distress and Problem Drinking

2015

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We examine the influence of harmful alcohol use on mental health using a flexible two-step instrumental variables approach and household survey data from nine countries of the former Soviet Union. Using alcohol advertisements to instrument for alcohol, we show that problem drinking has a large detrimental effect on psychological distress, with problem drinkers exhibiting a 42% increase in the number of mental health problems reported and a 15% higher chance of reporting very poor mental health. Ignoring endogeneity leads to an underestimation of the damaging effect of excessive drinking. Findings suggest that more effective alcohol polices and treatment services in the former Soviet Union may have added benefits in terms of reducing poor mental health.

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“…1 ECF may represent a very relevant target for rehabilitation strategies, since ECF deficits are associated with poorer outcomes in treatment. 2 In addition, the literature discussing whether ECFrelated deficits persist after a period of abstinence is contradictory.…”

Section: Evidências De Déficits Executivos Persistentes Após Um Mês Dmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychiatry in Russia: economic upturn must bring improvements

Jargin

2010

Rev. Bras. Psiquiatr.

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Mental health in post-communist countries

Cited by 43 publications

References 6 publications

Postsocialism, the psy-ences and mental health

Postsocialism, the psy-ences and mental health

Psychological Distress and Problem Drinking

Psychiatry in Russia: economic upturn must bring improvements

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