Reflections on the future of psychiatry

Abstract

The new Deputy Editor of BJPsych International introduces articles in the current issue on topics as diverse as metacommunity psychiatry, child and adolescent mental health services in Australia and the Philippines, the mental health of the UK's Gypsy, Roma and Traveller populations, Indigenous mental health professionals in Bangladesh, and the relationship between spirituality and behavioural addictions.

Keywords

• Community psychiatry
• mental health services
• metacommunity
• child and adolescent mental health
• behavioural addictions