title: [In search of Ariadne's thread].
abstract: The article was presented on the opening of the jubilee 40th Polish Psychiatric Conference, where the main theme was "Integration in psychiatry" The author describes the present developmental tendencies in medicine and analyses the changes which took place in psychiatry in the recent years, beginning with a favourable manner of perceiving and treating psychiatric patients by their surroundings, through the strengthening of the patients' positions and control of their laws, formalized by appropriate legal regulations, all the way to unfavourable instances which formulate a barrier and endangerment of further advances in psychiatric treatment reforms.
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Leder
mesh_terms: D003226:Congresses as Topic; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends; D011044:Poland; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends