Welcome to the English version of POL.it Psychiatry on line Italia.

According to data collected by Alexa, our Net magazine ranks first place in Europe, among psychiatric resources, for the number of accesses reached.

The year 1998 marked the 20th anniversary of the promulgation of the current psychiatric-care law in Italy, also known as "BASAGLIA ACT" and the psychiatric field devoted a lot of effort to this important issue.

On this occasion POL.it opened a specific section of our magazine, where our foreign colleagues can find a great amount of information as well as the actual presentation of the plan in English together with articles in English which explain the Italian psychiatric situation and other aspects of this topic.

In this special section we also included many extraordinary photos of Uliano Lucas, one of the best Italian photographers.

We hope that in the near future we will be able to translate all these pages in English.

We would be happy to know your opinion about our work.

For Xmas we are happy to offer our readers the possibility of reading a Xmas Tale entitled " THE PROPHET". From that page you can also download a table in A4 format painted by the famous italian illustrator Lele Luzzati. Take a look!!!

We believe that we can establish a strong international psychiatric resource on the net, however it entails a great deal of work, but we have been able to provide a great amount of material on our web pages over the past years.

Here is the index of the full-text English versions of articles published on POL.it web site:

• Ibogaine: The story of a therapeutic casualty? By Marcello Maviglia, MD, MPH-University Of New Mexico, Albuquerque-USA, Mauro Ceccanti, MD ‹University La Sapienza-Rome, Pino Lombardo, PhD-University La Sapienza-Rome, Italy
• Christianity and Freudianism by Antonello Armando - a Review of Shadia B. Drury's book Terror and Civilization. Christianity, Politics and the Western Psyche
• Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: Forming or Conforming? - A Passionate Debate Between Two Italian Lacanian Analysts
• Chinese Mental Health Online by Yizhuang Zou, MD, PhD, Beijing Huilongguan Hospital
• NEW ANTI PSYCHOTICS AND GLUDICES METABOLISM: A REVIEW OF LITERATURE by Marzia Delle Piane and Paola Rossi
• INTERVIEWS
• RUSSEL KATZ, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Director of the Division of Neuropharmacological Drug Products. Exclusive interview by Francesco Bollorino Editor of POL.it

  Francesco Bollorino, editor of POL.it has interviewed Russell Katz MD , who works at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the Division of Neuropharmacological as Direstor of this Division since 1999. In his long interview Russel Katz speaks about his work at FDA. His division is responsible for the regulation of clinical research with investigational drugs to treat neurologic and psychiatric illnesses in the United States. Article of great interest!!

• PSYCHO - ONCOLOGY - SPECIAL SECTION CONTENTS UPDATES
  
  PRESENTATION OF THE SECTION'S PLAN by Luigi Grassi
  REGULAR ARTICLES
  MILESTONES OF PSYCHOSOCIAL ONCOLOGY IN CANADA: REFLECTIONS AND DIRECTIONS FOR THE FUTURE by Barry D. Bultz, Ph.D., C.Psych.
  COMPLIANCE TO SELF-ASSESSMENT OF A PAIN EVALUATION INSTRUMENT BY PATIENTS WITH CANCER PAIN by Anna Galbiati and Coll.
  The diagnostic information in lung and gastro-enteric cancer: the opinion of the doctors and the consciousness of the patients. by Giuliana Ritorto and Coll.
  PSYCHO-ONCOLOGY:PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENT by Luigi Grassi and Gabriella Morasso
  THERAPEUTIC GROUPS FOR CHILDREN - SPACES FOR WORDS AND THOUGHTS by Dorella Scarponi
  INTERVIEWS
  SEVEN QUESTIONS TO: WALTER F.BAILE
  SEVEN QUESTIONS TO: KATALIN MUSZBEK
  SEVEN QUESTIONS TO: CHRISTOFFER JOHANSEN
  SEVEN QUESTIONS TO: MAGGIE WATSON
  SEVEN QUESTIONS TO: JIMMIE C. HOLLAND
  DIDACTICAL RESOURCES
  Mulitilingual Core-Curriculum on Psychosocial Aspects fo Cancer Care
  Announcement from the president of IPO and ESO
  ABSTRACTS OF LITERATURE
  October 2004 Update by Rosangela Caruso
  July 2003 Update by Neven Ivcic
  February 2003 Update by Rosangela Caruso
  June 2002 Update by Spyros Zotos
  BOOK REVIEWS
  Augusto Caraceni e Luigi Grassi: DELIRIUM — ACUTE CONFUSIONAL STATES IN PALLIATIVE MEDICINE, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003 by Thomas Wise (USA)
  Mary Burton, Maggie Watson: COUNSELLING PEOPLE WITH CANCER, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1998. by Luzia Dos Santos Travado
  Human side of the Cancer by Jimmie C. Holland e Coll by Francisco Gil
  EVENTS
  8^th World Congress of Psycho-Oncology, "Multidisciplinary Psychosocial Oncology: Dialogue and Interaction" - Psychosocial Academy, Ferrara, October 16-17 2006; Venice, October 18-21 2006
  VIII National Congress SOCIETA' ITALIANA di PSICO-ONCOLOGIA (SIPO) — Integration beteween medical care, pharmacological treatment and psychological intervention in oncology. Acireale and Catania, October 7—11 2003
  COGRESSES AND EVENTS (updated MAY 2003)
  COGRESSES AND EVENTS (updated APRIL 2003)
  NEW JOURNALS - reviews - updated APRIL 2003
  THE INTERNATIONAL CREATIVE RETREAT FOR POST-TREATMENT CANCER PATIENTS Assisi June 2003
  CONGRESSES IN PSYCHO ONCOLOGY
  THE INTERNATIONAL CREATIVE RETREAT FOR POST-TREATMENT CANCER PATIENTS Assisi september 4 — 9 2001
  REVIEW OF PSICHO -ONCOLOGY'S WEB LINKS updated!!
• LETTER FROM UK by NADIA MICALI, London, UK
• LETTER FROM UK, April 2003: Challenging Stigma: the Royal College campaign
• LETTER FROM UK, February 2003: The psychiatrist and computers: a happy marriage?
• LETTER FROM UK, January 2003: TYPICALS OR ATYPICALS? ..... DO WE HAVE A SAY? - Clinical Guidelines From UK
• LETTER FROM UK, December 2002: A Passage to India
• LETTERS FROM USA by MARCELLO MAVIGLIA, Albuquerque, New Mexico
• LETTER FROM USA, November 2002: Historical Trauma and PTSD: The "Existential" Versus the "Clinical"
• LETTER FROM USA, August 2002: Psychology and Pharmacology: Not So Strange Bedfellows.
• The Influence of Somatic and Psychiatric Medical Theory on the Design of Nineteenth Century American Cities by Robert Hewitt
• Should neurology and psychiatry merge? by Arnaldo Ballerini
• The Psychiatrist and the Laws by Antonio Augusto Rizzoli
• Antipsychotic treatment with classical neuroleptics: The patient's experience by David Titelman, Ph.D. Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
• Evidence-Based Psychiatry in clinical care and community mental health programs and policies - Misconceptions, achievements and future directions by Milos JENICEK (SIP CONGRESS SPEECH 2003)
• SOPSI 2003, Rome: INTERVIEW WITH PROF. P BUCKLEY, GEORGIA (USA) by Nadia Micali
• SOPSI 2003, Rome: INTERVIEW WITH PROF. T MC NEIL by Nadia Micali
• Web Technologies in CME Projects, New Ways of Teaching Psychiatry by Francesco Bollorino Neuroscience Department — Genoa University ( Paper read at XII WPA Congress, Yokohama Japan August 24 - 29, 2002)
• Interview to Charles Curran ( Forest Pharmaceuticals) - August 2002 by Anna Fata
• Interview to Prof. Sherry Turkle (MIT - Massachussetts Institute of Tecnology) - June 2002 Rome, Italy during SIP Congress
• The subconscious of the dandy by Maria Pia Bobbioni
• The Italian asylum law: moving towards the deinstitutionalization model by Giuseppe Dell'Acqua (Trieste, Italy 2002)
• Ugo Cerletti and the discovery of Electroshock. - An imaginary interview by Francesco Bollorino, Rossella Valdre', Maria Vittoria Giannelli (Genoa, Italy 1998)
• CULTURAL TRENDS ON COGNITIVE THERAPY by Isabel Caro (Valencia, Spain 2001)
• ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO THE TREATMENT OF ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR by Gemma Brandi and Mario Iannucci (Florence, Italy 2001)
• Interview to Richard Barbrook, Westminster University London, UK by Anna Fata (2001)
• Interview to Kimberly Young, University of Pittsburgh on IAD by Anna Fata (2001)
• Interview to Prof. John Suler ( Rider University, Lawrenceville, New Jersey) on physiology and psychopathology of the life online by Anna Fata (2001)
• Interview to Prof. Sherry Turkle (MIT - Massachussetts Institute of Tecnology) - 1996 by permission of Technology Review Magazine
• Legal Responsibility and Protection of Mentally Disordered People in English Law by Phil Bates (1998)
• What do you want from an internetic journal? by Antonio Augusto Rizzoli (1998)
• " THE PROPHET" a Xmas Tale by Francesco Bollorino (1989)
• A History of the International Association of Group Therapy : Facts and Findings by JOAN CAMPOS AVILLAR ( Bercellona 2000)
• Psycho-social family intervention in schizophrenia; application of Expressed Emotion concept in United Kingdom by Dominic Lam, Ph.D (1995)
• DOES FREUDIAN THEORY RESOLVE "THE PARADOXES OF IRRATIONALITY"? by Adolf Grünbaum, University of Pittsburgh (1998)
• THE HERMENEUTIC VERSUS THE SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: AN UNSUCCESSFUL EFFORT TO CHART A VIA MEDIA FOR THE HUMAN SCIENCES by Adolf Grünbaum, University of Pittsburgh (1995)
• COMMUNITY PSYCHIATRY IN ITALY by Giordano Invernizzi ( Italy 1997)
• AGGRESSION AND ATTACHMENT by Juan Carlos Garelli, M.D., Ph.D. University of Buenos Aires Department of Early Development (1997)
• CONTROVERSIAL ASPECTS OF BOWLBY'S ATTACHMENT THEORY by Juan Carlos Garelli, M.D., Ph.D. University of Buenos Aires Department of Early Development (1999)
• Individuality and Generalizationin the Psychology of Personality: A Theoretical Rationale for PersonalityAssessment and Researchby Robert R. Holt (1998)
• A century of psychoanalysis: critical retrospect and prospectby Adolf Grünbaum (1998)
• Developmental defect versus dynamic conflict, by MorrisN. Eagle (1998)
• Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy: a revision by Merton M. Gill ( 1984)
• The mental health and welfare system and its related laws in Japan by MIZUNO Masafumi , MURAKAMI Masaaki ed Antonio A. RIZZOLI ( 1998)
• INTERNET AND PSYCHIATRY: THERAPEUTIC TOOL OR THERAPEUTIC SPACE? by Francesco Bollorino, Editor of POL.it (WPA Congress, Hamburg 1999)

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