Uzbekistan: psychiatry in transition.
The center of a national medical identity in Uzbekistan is Abu Ali Ibn Sina born in 980 AD representing Islamic medicine and scientific universalism. Psychiatric institutions were founded under Russian influence starting in the late 19th century. Today, the great challenge in psychiatry is the development of a post-Soviet identity integrating Russian and Islamic traditions.
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Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Campus Mitte, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Müllerstrasse 56-58, Berlin, Germany. adrian.mundt@charite.de
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Ströhle
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D006801:Humans; D007514:Islam; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000639:trends*; D014610:Uzbekistan