title: [Future Psychiatry: a "Think Tank" for the Italian Psychiatry].
abstract: The Future Psychiatry Project was founded with the goal to address the critical ratio of research/training / clinic. In<BR>a series of regular meetings, each devoted to a specific clinical topic, data and more advanced models for the clinical area in question<BR>will be analyzed in an integrated and multidisciplinary approach and the real possibility of extension of development and<BR>prospects of scientific advances to the clinic and therapy will be evaluated.The primary methodological objective of the Future<BR>Psychiatry meetings is the training method to overcome the common type of teacher/learner classroom teaching, albeit divided<BR>into the various possibilities offered by different types of educational meetings.The structure is informal, with features of intensive<BR>seminars and suggested modes for better interaction.The objective is the "Think Tank", a common space for study and exchange<BR>of knowledge, experiences, opinions and expectations, aimed at producing an integrated and shared dynamic result, that<BR>can provide a real reference point for participants and for all researchers and clinicians engaged in improving their level of updating<BR>and best clinical activity.The first Future Psychiatry meeting was held in Sermoneta (Latina) in the halls of the Castello Caetani<BR>on September 16th to 18th 2010.The chosen topic was "The Future of Depression: the development of knowledge, the evolution<BR>of therapies". The currently most advanced data of research were discussed and developed in their potential to reach a<BR>shared model taking into account the etiological complexity of Depression and to be a real reference to the possibility of application<BR>to real clinical experience.The main guidelines of the current research and major prospects for development of this in the<BR>field Depression have been outlined, also in relation to the ongoing evolution and the future outlook of the models and tools of<BR>therapy. Psychiatrists' clinical needs and expectations in front of the development of scientific knowledge were analyzed in relation<BR>to the translational prospect of a better application of these in the clinical practice of present and future care of Depression.
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bersani
mesh_terms: D003226:Congresses as Topic; D007558:Italy; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000639:trends*