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The British Journal of Psychiatry (2005) 187: s1-s3
© 2005 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

EDITORIALS

Introduction to ‘Early psychosis: a bridge to the future’

PATRICK McGORRY, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRANZCP, President

IEPA, Melbourne, Australia

MERETE NORDENTOFT, MD, PhD, Convenor

IEPC 3, Copenhagen, Denmark

ERIK SIMONSEN, MD, PhD, Co-Convenor

IEPC

Correspondence: Professor Patrick McGorry, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRANZCP, Director, ORYGEN Youth Health (incorporating EPPIC), Executive Director, ORYGEN Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Locked Bag 10/35 Poplar Road, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia. Tel: +61393422850; fax: +61393422948; e-mail: mcgorry{at}ariel.unimelb.edu.au

Declaration of interest None.

ABSTRACT

Early intervention in psychiatry has taken a long time to emerge as a key strategy to reduce morbidity and mortality. In other fields of medicine it has received consistent support and great efforts are expended to educate the public about the value of early diagnosis and the benefits of timely intervention. There is finally substantial momentum behind similar endeavours in psychotic disorders, which, now they have reached ‘proof of concept’ stage, could begin to be extended across the spectrum of serious mental disorders. There is also ambivalence and resistance to this evidence-based reform which warrants careful analysis. The Third International Early Psychosis Conference proved to be a watershed and was the largest and most vibrant meeting to that point. This preface aims to setthe scene for a selection of contributions, derived from the array of new evidence reported in Copenhagen, and recently fully updated.




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