COVID-19 Impact on the Italian Community-based System of Mental Health Care: Reflections and Lessons Learned for the Future.

Despite the unprecedented wave of research and publications sparked by the recent pandemic, only few studies have investigated the impact of COVID-19 on the Italian community-based system of mental health care. We aimed to summarize the available evidence from the literature also considering what we have learned from our daily clinical practice. As hospital care was restricted by COVID-19, although reducing their opening hours and activities, Community Mental Health Centers promoted continuity of care for at-risk populations, supporting them to cope with loneliness and hopelessness during quarantine and self-isolation.

Paradigms of psychiatry: eclecticism and its discontents.

Purpose Of Review: To assess paradigms of psychiatry, assessing their strengths and limitations.

Recent Findings: The biopsychosocial model, and eclecticism in general, serves as the primary paradigm of mainstream contemporary psychiatry. In the past few decades, the biopsychosocial model served as a cease-fire between the biological and psychoanalytic extremism that characterized much of the 19th and 20th century history of psychiatry.