Citation

Perera IM. Eur. Psychiatry 2019; 62: 28-29.

Affiliation

University of Pennsyvlania, Blockley Hall, 14th Floor, 19104, Philadelphia, PA, United States. Electronic address: iperera@upenn.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.eurpsy.2019.08.014

PMID

31509791

Abstract

Some of the most immediate health effects of the 2008 economic crisis concerned the mind, not the body. Rates of generalized anxiety, chronic depression, and even suicide spiked in many European societies. This viewpoint highlights the role of mental health professionals in responding to this emergency, and argues that their sustained mobilization is necessary to its long-term resolution.

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Language: en

Keywords

Economics and psychiatry; Emergency; Ethics and human rights; Health economics; Psychiatry in Europe; Social and cross-cultural psychiatry