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Noro Psikiyatr Ars
November 2024
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Int Rev Psychiatry
November 2024
Department of Forensic Psychiatry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
In an era marked by escalating international crises, environmental shifts, and sociopolitical volatilities, global mental health is facing profound challenges. With its distinctive position at the intersection between clinical and judicial domains, forensic psychiatry can be predisposed to the consequences of adverse external determinants and events. At present, geopolitical conflicts, rising insecurities, climate change, forced and voluntary migration, and regressive sociopolitical ideologies are all compounding role responsibilities, care models, and ethical expectations across forensic-psychiatric practice; in short, complex distal factors are increasingly informing domestic considerations.
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November 2024
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Foggia, Foggia 71121, Italy.
Ind Psychiatry J
August 2024
Department of Forensic Psychiatry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Throughout history, armed conflicts have profoundly affected individuals and societies, with recent events in Ukraine, the Middle East, and beyond bringing into sharp focus the severe mental health and humanitarian consequences of geopolitical crises. Such situations often result in mass fatalities, destruction, displacement, forced migration, and other critical life events. Amid these scenarios, the adverse outcomes for mental health and well-being in both the short and long term must be emphasized.
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August 2024
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Geopsychiatry, a newly emerging discipline within psychiatry, examines the influence of geopolitical determinants on mental health and mental illness. Geopolitical determinants include conflict and wars, global austerity, climate change, public health crises (such as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)), and migration. This study focuses on the two significant areas of climate change and migration.
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