[Western psychiatric literature in Eastern Europe: the publication programme of the Global Initiative on Psychiatry].
Global Initiative on Psychiatry (GIP) foundation was set up in 1980 as a reaction to the misuse of psychiatry for political purposes. After the revolutions in Eastern Europe, GIP devoted itself to the reform of the mental healthcare in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Here, GIP makes a special effort to eliminate the arrears in comparison with world psychiatry. More than 30,000 books and journals have been collected internationally and delivered to Eastern Europe from the Netherlands in convoys with relief supplies. These gifts still represent the heart of the extensive library of the Ukrainian Psychiatric Society. Via a translation and publication programme in Russian and later also in other languages (Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Albanian, Estonian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Georgian and Azerbaijani), handbooks such as the International Classification of Diseases of the WHO (ICD-10) and other standard works have been published. In addition, since 1998 a unique journal has been published: the Review of Contemporary Psychiatry, a journal for psychiatrists and other professionals in which a selection of the most interesting articles in the Western psychiatric literature is offered in Russian translation, without advertising from the pharmaceutical industry.
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