Objectives To present background information for the Saudi National Mental Health Survey
(SNMHS) on the Saudi mental healthcare delivery system and previous epidemiological …

Although the quality and effectiveness of mental health treatments and services have
improved greatly over the past 50 years, therapeutic revolutions in psychiatry have not yet …

More than 15 million non-nationals are currently living and working in Gulf Cooperation
Council (GCC) states. The majority are blue-collar or domestic workers coming from the …

We review the past, present and future state of mental health care in the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia (KSA). The past is reviewed prior to the modern era, discussing early explanations …

The clinical heterogeneity of dissociation constitutes a challenge to the culture-sensitive
clinician. Variability in experiencing dissociation, the interplay between acute and chronic …

Background: As the world is being gripped by economic depression, international
psychological epidemiologists have amassed evidence to suggest that psychological …

Abstract Background In sub-Saharan Africa, the number of psychiatric beds per population is
disproportionately low. Moreover, there is a lack of data regarding the patterns of psychiatric …

Background Mental disorders are common among migrant workers. There is no data on
depression in Saudi Arabia among them; although, they are a third of the population …

Stigma and discrimination continue to be a reality in the lives of people suffering from mental
illness, particularly schizophrenia, and prove to be one of the greatest barriers to regaining a …

Background: In 1983, an article and accompanying editorial was published on the state of
psychiatry in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), which was described as “a mental health …