AMMONS DYNAMIC PSYCHIATRY AS SCIENTIFIC-METHODOLOGICAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL BASIS OF THE HUMANISTIC REFORM OF PATIENT SERVICES IN PSYCHIATRIC-HOSPITALS IN RUSSIA

The authors emphasize the wide range of the reform of mental health se rvices in Russia during the las decades. The essence of these changes is a transition form the directive, drug-oriented psychiatric care to a comprehensive, humanistic and psychotherapeutic approach in Russian psychiatry. The analysis of the authors shows that new methods for the integration of psychotherapy and medical psychology in psychiatry can only work with new organizational structures such as specialized psyc hotherapeutic departments and consulting-rooms. An adequate comprehens ive and integrative treatment model for mental disorders of the psycho tic spectrum could be found in the conception of Gunter Ammon's Dynami c Psychiatry. The Russian Psychotherapeutic Association has begun to i ntroduce the concept of the Dynamic Psychiatric Hospital Menterschwaig e in three great Russian psychiatric hospitals. At the first stage, th ree psychotherapeutic departments in these hospitals in different part s of the country and preliminary selection and training of specialists for this work are in preparation. The practical issues of this projec t are being resolved jointly by the Russian Psychotherapeutic Associat ion and the German Academy for Psychoanalysis.