The British Journal of Psychiatry (2008) 193: 91-92. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.108.049361
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Non-financial conflicts of interests in psychiatric research and practice

Mario Maj, MD, PhD

Department of Psychiatry, University of Naples SUN, Largo Madonna delle Grazie, 80138 Naples, Italy. Email: majmario{at}tin.it

Declaration of interest

None.

Mario Maj (pictured) is Professor of Psychiatry and Chairman at the Department of Psychiatry, Naples University. He is President-Elect of the World Psychiatric Association and has been President of the European Psychiatric Association and the Italian Psychiatric Association. He has been active as a researcher and an educator on behalf of the World Health Organization in Africa, South-East Asia and Latin America. According to the Institute of Scientific Information, he is the Italian psychiatrist having been cited the most in the period 1981–2005.

Not all conflicts of interests affecting psychiatry are financial in nature. Our field is vulnerable to some varieties of nonfinancial conflicts of interests. Examples include the possible conflict between a researcher’s allegiance to a school of thought and the integrity of psychotherapy research, or between a psychiatrist’s political commitment and patients’ welfare.




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