1. ORGANIZAČNÝ VÝVOJ A ODBORNÉ AKTIVITY SLOVENSKEJ PSYCHIATRICKEJ SPOLOČNOSTI SLOVENSKEJ LEKÁRSKEJ SPOLOČNOSTI.
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Morovicsová, Eva, Morovics, Miroslav Tibor, and Knesplová, Lenka
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PROFESSIONAL associations , *MEDICAL societies , *PSYCHIATRISTS , *POLITICAL change , *PHYSICIANS - Abstract
The authors describe the conditions of the origin and development of the Slovak Psychiatric Association of the Slovak Medical Association and analyse its activities from its establishment to the present. Attention is paid to professional organizations that have been its predecessors and created the conditions for the activities of the Slovak Psychiatric Association as an independent professional association. Slovak doctors, including psychiatrists, were associated in the Central Unity of Czechoslovak Doctors during the first Czechoslovak Republic. The oldest psychiatric association in the former Czechoslovakia was the Purkynés Association for the study of Psyche and Nerves, which was founded in 1918 and some of its activities were performed in Slovakia - until the establishment of the first Slovak Republic in 1939. The cooperation with Purkyne's association was interrupted as a result of political changes during the period of the Slovak State. The Association of Physicians of the Slovak Republic was established, where psychiatrists could also be involved. Later the main functions of the association were taken over by the Medical Chamber. In 1949, the Czechoslovak Medical Association of J. E. Purkyně began to work in the renewed State. The original Purkyněs Association for Studying Psyche and Nerves became integrated expert section of the Czechoslovak Medical Association and later on divided into two separate sections: neurological and psychiatric. In Slovakia, during 1952-1953, Slovak branches of the mentioned sections were created, which was organized by the Slovak Committee of the Czechoslovak Medical Association of J. E. Purkyně in Bratislava. The Slovak Psychiatric Association was founded in 1969 as part of the changes that took place during efforts about the federal arrangement of the State. Analogously to other institutions, the Czechoslovak Psychiatric Association was established in Prague composed of both national association in 1969. The newly created association represented the Czechoslovak psychiatry at domestic and foreign events until 1992, to the division of the Czechoslovak republic into two separate republics. In 1993 the Czechoslovak Psychiatric Association was divided into national associations. The Slovak Psychiatric Association of the Slovak Medical Association - already as a separate professional association - continued to professionally and methodically cover the discipline. The association has been involved and is currently organizing scientific and professional events, forming a concept of psychiatry, preparing opinions on current issues, postgraduate education and other activities. Finally, it is actively cooperating with other professional association in the specific field, including foreign ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019