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After 30 years, Prof. Dr. Al. Obregia Clinical Hospital of Psychiatry (AO.CHP), Bucharest taken again the tradition of annual conferences. In this way, between 22 and 24 November 2018 carried on at Bucharest the National Conference with International Participation: Modern Assistance in Psychiatry and Neurosciences - AO CHP: 95 years of tradition and excellence. This scientific meeting included 4 workshops, 11 sessions (1 plenary and 10 thematic), 73 specialized papers, over 400 participants, physicians and researchers, psychologists and sociologists, medical and social assistants, academicians and all university degrees. Threefold restitution of hospital founder - Al. Obregia-psychiatry was realized in 1998, after 75 years from the institution establishment. 3 Academies have continued the restitution, from 2009 until now (2018): Academy of Romanian Scientists, Deutsch-Rumänische Akademie Baden-Baden e.V., Germany, American-Romanian Academy. Sacramento, California (CA), USA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After 30 years, Prof. Dr. Al. Obregia Clinical Hospital of Psychiatry (AO.CHP), Bucharest taken again the tradition of annual conferences. In this way, between 22 and 24 November 2018 carried on at Bucharest the National Conference with International Participation: Modern Assistance in Psychiatry and Neurosciences - AO CHP: 95 years of tradition and excellence. This scientific meeting included 4 workshops, 11 sessions (1 plenary and 10 thematic), 73 specialized papers, over 400 participants, physicians and researchers, psychologists and sociologists, medical and social assistants, academicians and all university degrees. Threefold restitution of hospital founder - Al. Obregia-psychiatry was realized in 1998, after 75 years from the institution establishment. 3 Academies have continued the restitution, from 2009 until now (2018): Academy of Romanian Scientists, Deutsch-Rumänische Akademie Baden-Baden e.V., Germany, American-Romanian Academy. Sacramento, California (CA), USA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The concept of mental health is a very controversial one. First of all it must be made the distinction between the mental health understood as a psychic health and mental health as a predominantly preventive kind of intervention. The latter is based on a pluridisciplinary system of theoretical and practical means meant for defending, preserving and improving the psychic health or, in modern terms, the psychic well-being, respectively the positive psychic health. The last option offers four direction to select from: (1) mental health limited to primary psychoprophylaxis (the original meaning of the concept); (2) mental health as concern for the psychic well-being or positive mental health, a modern development of the first approach; (3) mental health as a general term for all prevention forms -- primary prevention (attention - no primary care) secondary and tertiary -- expressing the whole of its preventive purpose which includes important healing valences as well; (4) and mental health as an umbrella concept which covers and unifies everything concerning normal and pathological psyche. The last direction, generally preferred for the advantage of offering a spotless side of the field, has its risks. These risks are the neglect of primary prevention, medicalization and psychiatrisation of mental health. Among the causes are: the complex and vaguely delimited character of primary psychoprophylaxis, the skepticism it is regarded with, the passivity of the community, prohibitive costs, the limited amount of resources, long-waited results, the pressure of manifest psychic pain, the lack of authentic professionals and even the psychiatric training of many of those who promote it. The paper shows that, at least for the communities with limited economical resources, it is preferred to accept the complementary character of the relationship between psychiatry and mental health, the latter being a field in which the primary prevention together with the concern for the promotion of the child's and adolescent's mental health should be dominant. In addition, a new paradigm becomes necessarily for health management: the pyramid of health services-mental health-longevity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]