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Drawing Money from Empty Coffers: A Path to Recovery Through Self-Help and Social Solidarity

Explore the journey towards psychological healing and resilience through self-help and community support in the face of unconventional experiences. Learn from Anna Emmanouelidou's insights on navigating psychic pain. Discover the shifting landscape of psychiatric hospitals in Greece from 1985 to 2010, focusing on deinstitutionalization and the rise of community mental health units. Find out about the challenges faced, strategies for reform, and the urgent need for social solidarity in mental health support services.

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Drawing Money from Empty Coffers: A Path to Recovery Through Self-Help and Social Solidarity

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  1. Drawing money from empty coffers: self-help and social solidarity as a recovery answer to psychic pain and unconventional experiences Anna Emmanouelidou, Greece Cork 2011

  2. PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS IN GREECE 1985-2010 • 3 PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS WERE CLOSED TOTALY UNTIL 2006 • 4 BIG HOSPITALS (ATHENS, THESSALONIKI, LEROS) ARE IN PROGRAMM TO GET CLOSED UNTIL 2015 • ALREADY TODAY THE NUMBER OF BETTS IN THESE HOSPITALS ARE ABOUT 1/3 FROM THIS NUMBER 1985

  3. MENTAL HEALTH UNITS FOR THE WHOLE LAND 2002-2010 Deinstitutionalisationunits

  4. NEW MENTAL HEALTH UNITS IN GREECE 2002 – 2010 Community mental health Units

  5. MENTAL HEALTH UNITS FOR THE WHOLE LAND 2002-2010

  6. The undone reform…

  7. 2003 GREEK OBSERVATORY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN MENTAL HEALTH FIELD

  8. 2011“THE CRISIS” 280/527 UNITS HAVE TO BE CLOSED WITHIN 3 MONTHS 3500 EMPLOYEES AND ABOUT 5000 SERVICE USERS (Residential and special units the most weak population)

  9. MUCH MORE UNITS • HAVE TO GET FUSED • Become smaller • Must go on properly with the half of their staff

  10. AND NOW WHAT? • Network of self helf groups in every city • Teams for crisis intervention • Joint teams of social support for the day “after”

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