title: The future of community psychiatry.
abstract: Leaders of national groups that have focused on issues of community and social psychiatry present their ideas about the future of psychiatry. They identify five areas: theory development; the relevance of community psychiatry in the 21st century; education and training; the relationship between community psychiatry and health maintenance organizations; and role of community psychiatry in bridging medical science with humanism. The unifying theme for these topics is that community psychiatry can be a vehicle for modifying general psychiatry's propensity towards individualism and reductionism by offering a more holistic and integrative approach to illness and well-being.
authors.affiliation: SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA. cohenhenry@aol.com
authors.forename: Carl I
authors.initials: CI
authors.lastname: Cohen
authors.forename: Joel S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Feiner
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Huffine
authors.forename: H Steven
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Moffic
authors.forename: Kenneth S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Thompson
mesh_terms: D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000639:trends*; D003158:Community Psychiatry / Q000639:trends*; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D012955:Societies, Medical