title: [The most important obstacles of the development of Hungarian psychiatry].
abstract: A quarter of a century ago the change of the political system in Hungary precipitated a serious value-crisis and caused a lot of harmful effects in nurturing and the development of psychiatry. The author establishes that the attack against psychiatry is more intensive than previously but neither the education and health management nor the psychiatric leadership could cope with these difficulties. It can't be denied that the foundation of lifelong mental health begins in the early life years and about 75% of the first Mental Disorder manifests in adolescence and youth. We are not able to ensure the special rights of every child according to the Hungarian Constitution and the Declaration of the Rights of the Child by the United Nations. The large inequalities within the country, the lack of paramount mental education and nurturing, the lack of essential, consistent eternal values, the lack of required psychiatric care system are huge obstacles of the development of healthy individual and leads to self-destructive behaviour and several, serious physical and mental disorders. The purpose of the author is to call psychiatrists' attention to the main obstacles of the development of Hungarian Psychiatric Care System. The main obstacles of the present psychiatric care system: 1. Unclarified notions, confusion of ideas. 2. Somatic, neurologic, mental, cultural-social and spiritual ignorance. 3. Lack of organization in Mental Education and Psychiatric Care System. 4. Value-crisis in our society despite the fact that the "Council of Wise Men" created a "Scale of the Essential Consistent Eternal Values" for the Hungarian Education System in 2008. 5. Lack of mental health prevention both in education system and health care system. There is no teaching of hygiene lessons in the Hungarian schools. 6. Negligence and selfishness among the population. 7. Disinterest among competent authorities. 8. Leaving the most important possibilities out of consideration. The author establishes that the elimination of the above mentioned obstacles, the high standard of psychiatric care system, - especially the child psychiatric care system - and paramount mental education are extraordinarily important to prevent most psychiatric disorders and help the development of healthy and happy people. If human individuals are the most important ones in our society, if we eliminate the main obstacles of the development of psychiatry, we ensure to improve Hungarian psychiatry again, we shall be able to say that "the spiritual light is shining through the windows of every house", and our work will not be a quixotic struggle or "tilting at windmills".
authors.affiliation: Private practice, Kecskemét, Hungary. kalm-r@t-online.hu.
authors.forename: Sándor
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kalmár
mesh_terms: D004501:Education, Medical; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D008603:Mental Health; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends