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A proposed new definition of mental health
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Naples SUN, Naples, Italy
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Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Specialist in Psychiatry, Own firm, Denmark
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Hellesdon Hospital and Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programmes, Geneva, Switzerland
Submission date: 2017-05-20
Acceptance date: 2017-05-28
Online publication date: 2017-06-18
Publication date: 2017-06-18
Psychiatr Pol 2017;51(3):407-411
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The authors propose a new approach to the definition of mental health, different than the definition proposed by the World Health Organization, which is established around issues of person’s well-being and productivity. It is supposed to reflect the complexity of human life experience.