[Situation and development tendencies in psychiatric care in East Germany and their testing on selected models]

Abstract

Departing from a short description of the development of psychiatry in the GDR and the assessment of the present care situation, principles and targets of the further development are outlined on the basis of the result obtained by a research group "Organisation of Psychiatric Care". In the foreground there are the principles of vicinity of the community (decentralisation), the formation of function units of inpatients, semiclinical and outpatient treatment establishments (including the offer of care at sheltered work places, lodgings and during leisure time) for surveyable territories (sectorisation) and the integration of psychiatry in medicine and society.