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The group of European Medical Research Councils (EMRC) was formed
in 1971 and became a Standing Committee of the European Science
Foundation (ESF) in 1975. EMRC is an association of medical
research councils or equivalent organizations in Western Europe.
The National Institutes of Health, the Israel Academy of Sciences,
and the European Office of WHO are associated with EMRC and take an
active part in its activities. The main aims of EMRC are to
exchange information on the research policies pursued by its member
organizations and to initiate and stimulate inter national
cooperation in biomedical research. Since this research is highly
international in itself, EMRC concentrates its activities on
furthering international collaboration in those fields where it can
play a significant role as a complement of existing channels.
Mental illness research has been judged by EMRC to fulfill these
criteria. After a survey of the activities of the member
organizations in mental illness research, EMRC decided in 1978 to
set up a study group to analyze areas where EMRC could contribute.
As a result of the work of the study group, five workshops have
been arranged to define present knowledge in some specific areas
and to delineate research needs. The present volume contains the
proceedings of the fifth workshop, held in 1987 and dealing with
interactions between mental and physical illness. EMRC hopes that
this volume will contribute both to intensified research and to
research cooperation on mental illnesses."
The group of European Medical Research Councils (EMRC) was formed
in 1971 by the medical research councils or equivalent
organizations in Western Europe and became a Standing Committee of
the European Science Foundation in 1975. The aims of the EMRC are
to exchange information on research policies and to initiate and
stimulate international cooperation in biomedical research.
Research on mental illness is one of the areas of special im
portance identified by the EMRC. Having surveyed the activities of
its member organizations in mental illness research the EMRC
decided in 1978 to set up a study group in order to promote
European collaboration on research needed in this field. It was
decided that emphasis should be on research on treatment and on the
evaluation of treatment. The group prepared a proposal to the EMRC
which suggested organizing small workshops with the participation
of two or three research workers from each member country as well
as from organizations with observer status in the EMRC such as they
WHO and the National Institutes of Health in the United States. The
members of the Study Group nominated by the EMRC are at present
Professors E. Anttinen (Finland), R. Daly (Ireland), T. Helgason
(Iceland; chairman), H. Hippius (Federal Republic of Germany), and
E. A. Sand (Belgium), and Dr. R. Sadoun (France)."
First published in 1983, this book is a review of psychiatric
treatment by experts in the field from the member countries of the
European Medical Research Councils, organized by the European
Science Foundation. The volume starts by enumerating the various
methods for evaluating psychiatric treatment or evaluating the
results of treating specific syndromes, and continues with a
chapter on the aims of psychiatric treatment and three on methods
of classification of mental diseases. The rest of the book deals
with evaluation of treatment, starting with special problems
encountered in the difficult areas of evaluation of psychotherapy
and social therapeutic methods. There are five chapters on various
rating scales and methods and one chapter each on
psychophysiological and biochemical criteria in the evaluation of
treatment. The last contribution to the book is on ethical and
practical problems in theraputic research.
In this 1985 text organizational, patient and public health aspects
of long-term treatment of functional psychoses are described and
areas are pinpointed where more information is required. The
workshop on which the volume is based was arranged by the European
Medical Research Councils and was attended by leading workers from
a number of European countries. Accounts of the organization of and
alternatives to hospitals and of the effects of closing mental
hospitals are followed by discussions of psychotherapy,
milieu-therapy and pharmacotherapy, neuroleptic, lithium and
antidepressive medication. The care of schizophrenics, of children
and of the aged are discussed. In all these areas the book draws
attention to areas of research or aspects of long-term treatment
which need further probing.
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