Manage or Perish?

Mental Health Care in Israel.- 27. Challenges of Managed Mental Health Care in the South-East Mediterranean Region.- 28. Cost Management of Mental Patients' Care: Is Traditional Healing an Alternative in Developing Countries?.- V. Managed Care and Specific Mental Disorders.- 29. Quality of Life Assessment in Schizophrenia.- 30. Traditional Methodology and Outcome Assessment in Studies on the Course of Schizophrenia.- 31. Comparison of Antipsychotics in Randomized Clinical Trials: Economic and Quality of Life Outcomes.- 32. Methodological Problems of Schizophrenia Trials in Community Settings.- 33. Antidepressant Use and Clinical and Economic Outcomes in a Primary Care Psychiatry Center in Spain: A Review of a Naturalistic Study.- 34. Assessment of the Impact of Long-Term Lithium Prophylaxis on the Course of Bipolar Disorder: Methodological Problems and Empirical Data.- 35. Cost Effectiveness in the Prevention of Suicide.- 36. Economic Aspects of Anxiety Disorders.- 37. Cost and Management of Bipolar Disorders.- 38. Major Depression: Brief versus Long-Term Treatment.- VI. Methodology.- 39. From Supply and Demand to Need and Demand: Service Planning and the New Epidemiology.- 40. Outcome Measures and Cultural Factors in Managed Care: A Literature Review.- 41. Use of the EPCAT Model of Care for Standard Description of Psychiatric Services: The Experience in Spain.- 42. Total Quality Management in Mental Health: A Pilot Program.- 43. Research and Communication of Mental Health Data: Three Years on the Net.- 44. Assessing Psychotherapy Outcome: The State of the Art.- VII. Ethical Issues in Managed Care.- 45. Ethical Problems in the Practice of Psychiatrists under Managed Care.- 46. Managed Care: Will it Destroy the Doctor-Patient Relationship?.- 47. Does Managed Care Threaten the Therapeutic Relationship? or When a Third Party Comes between a Doctor and Patient.- 48. When the Therapeutic Team becomes Dysfunctional because of Managed Care.- 49. Cherish or Perish: The Values of Private Psychiatry.- 50. Ethical and Legal Dimensions of Medical Confidentiality in European Law of Human Rights.- 51. Care of People with Psychiatric Subthreshold Disorders: Ethical Challenges.- 52. Ethical Committees as a Guarantee of Observation of Human Rights in Managed Care Systems.- VIII. Managed Care and Psychiatry's Users.- 53. Unmet Needs and Cost Containment: A Non-Linear Relationship.- 54. The Patient's View of Managed Psychiatry.- 55. The Young Psychiatric Patients' Rights: An Overview of the Current International Legislation.- 56. Manage or Perish, or Choosing to Live without Neuroleptic Drugs: Difficulties and Chances.- 57. What the Patients Tell Us: A Preliminary Report on the GAMIAN International Survey, with Specific Reference to the Italian Data.- 58. The Role of Advocacy in an Era of Managed Care.- 59. Alternatives to Psychiatry and Managed Care.- 60. A Cost-Effective Strategy: The Role of Support Groups in Helping Depressed Patients.- 61. Practicing Treatment with Informed Consent: The Possible Impact of the Managed Care Concept.- IX. Teaching and Research.- 62. How Could Academic Psychiatry Survive Managed Care?.- 63. Is Managed Care Good for Research and Education?.- 64. Implications of Managed Care for the Training of Psychiatrists.- 65. The Impact of Managed Care on Residency Training in the Americas.- 66. Maximizing Research Opportunities in Today's Managed Care Environment.- 67. Unexpected Advantages in Service Design and Research from Cost-Containment Strategies.- 68. Standardized Service Assessment in Italy.- 69. The Andalusian Case Register for Schizophrenia: An Attempt to Obtain Patterns of Use of Mental Health Services for Planning Medical Care.- X. Interference of Managed Care with Social Support Networks.- 70. Support Functions of the Social Networks of Psychiatric Patients and the General Population.- 71. Reduction in Costs but Increased Family Burden: Home Care of the Mentally Ill: The Role of Family Environment.- 72. Social Networks and Health Burden on Care-Givers: A Challenge for Managed Care.