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Para uma revisão da história dos laços entre o socialismo do Norte e Sul da Europa

Forty years of a psychiatric day hospital

INTRODUCTION: Day hospitals in psychiatry are a major alternative to inpatient care today, acting as key components of community and social psychiatry. Objective: To study trends in the use of psychiatric day hospitals over the last decades of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century, focusing on patient age, sex, and diagnostic group, using data from Centro Hospitalar São João, Porto, Portugal...

Revisiting unipolar mania: an entity forgotten?

Unipolar mania, also referred as recurrent mania or unipolar recurrent mania, is an entity which position in bipolar disorder remains controversial. Notwithstanding, there are a considerable number of bipolar patients in clinical practice presenting only with recurrent episodes of mania or hypomania, without episodes of depression. Additionally, the existence of certain clinical, demographic and treatment pecul...

Day hospital in community psychiatry: Is it still an alternative to Mental Heal...

The Day Hospital constitutes one of the main components of the community psychiatry and it is integrated in the current social psychiatry policy, representing one of the main alternatives to inpatient regimen. The concept was created in Russia in the 1930’s and spread to America during the 40’s and 50’s, reaching its peak in the 1970’s. Even though there was in the decades ahead a decline of expansion and an in...