Psychiatria Danubina, Vol. 25 No. 3, 2013.
Conference paper
HOW TO INCREASE TREATMENT EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY IN PSYCHIATRY: CREATIVE PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY Part 1: Definition, Fundamental Principles and Higher Effectiveness Polipharmacy
Miro Jakovljević
; University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Department of Psychiatry, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Psychopharmacotherapy is a fascinating field that can be understood in many different ways. It is both a science and an art of
communication with a heavily subjective dimension. The advent of a significant number of the effective and well tolerated mental
health medicines during and after 1990s decade of the brain has increased our possibilities to treat major mental disorders in more
successful ways with much better treatment outcome including full recovery. However, there is a huge gap between our possibilities
for achieving high treatment effectiveness and not satisfying results in day-to-day clinical practice. Creative approach to
psychopharmacotherapy could advance everyday clinical practice and bridge the gap. Creative psychopharmacotherapy is a concept
that incorporates creativity as its fundamental tool. Creativity involves the intention and ability to transcend limiting traditional
ideas, rules, patterns and relationships and to create meaningful new ideas, interpretations, contexts and methods in clinical
psychopharmacology.
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Publication date:
17.9.2013.
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