Dr. Giuseppe Spinetti - Italy

Head of Psychiatric Hospital since 1991, Imperia, Italy

Is active member in several Scientific Societies and Associations,
such as:

• World President WPA Section "Ecology, Psychiatry and Mental Health", Section of the World Psychiatric Association

• National President, “ Italian Society of Ecology, Psychiatry and Mental Health", Section of the World Psychiatric Association

• National Vice-President, “National Coordination of Pshychiatric Diagnosis and Cure Services”

• President, Internaitonal Institute of Psyachiatry and psycho-therapy

Professor lecturing in several Institutes and Universities, both in Italy and abroad, such as:

• The Institute of Psychiatry of the “Sacred Heart” Catholic University, Rome, and the University of Genova, Italy

• Professor in Bioethics, University of Genova

• Professor in psycho-Geriatrics, Catholic University Rome

• Professor in psychiatric reabilitatione, University of Genova

Has authored over 250 articles published in magazines and dailies and scientific magazines:

• "Depressione ed Ansia", Casa Editrice "Centro Studi Psichiatria e Territorio",1992

• "La Psichiatria verso il Duemila", IIPP Editore, 1994.

• "La Psichiatria del Terzo Millennio", IIPP Editore 1996.

• "New Age: una nuova Qualità della Vita per il Terzo Millennio?", C.E.I. Editore, Imperia, 1997.

• "New Age: una nuova Qualità della Vita per il Terzo Millennio?", 2° Edizione, C.E.I. Editore, Imperia, 1998.

• “Nuove Prospettive nella Terapia della Depressione”, IIPP Ed., Savona, giugno 1999

• “Manuale di Psichiatria per Operatori SocioSanitari”, Grafica Amadeo Ed., Imperia, settembre 1999

• “Psicologia e Psichiatria nel Terzo Millennio. La Prospettiva Next Age”, IIPP Ed., Imperia, ottobre 1999

• “Manuale di Psichiatria per Operatori SocioSanitari”, Seconda Edizione, Grafica Amadeo Ed., Imperia, novembre 1999

• “La malattia di Alzheimer: malattia sociale”, IIPP Ed., Imperia, dicembre 1999

• “Pianeta Emergenza e Protezione Civile: aspetti psichiatrici, psicologici e socioculturali”, IIPP Ed., Imperia, giugno 2000

• “La Psichiatria di Consultazione: realtà esistenti, problematiche, prospettive future”, CIC Ed. Internazionali, Riv. Psichiatria di Consultazione, suppl. 1/2000

• “SPDC in Italia: ubicazioni, informazioni, riferimenti”, Editore Fondazione P. Varenna, suppl. a “Psichiatria Oggi”, anno XIII, 1, 5, 2000

• “Nuove Prospettive nel Trattamento della Schizofrenia” , IIPP Ed., Imperia, novembre 2000

• “Psichiatria ed Ecologia”, CIC Edizioni Internazionali, Roma, maggio 2001

• “Il trattamento integrato dei Disturbi del Comportamento Alimentare”, Marco Sabatelli Editore, Savona, aprile 2002

• “L’ Assistenza Psichiatrica Ospedaliera: realtà esistenti, problematiche, prospettive future” IIPP Ed., aprile 2002

• "Adolescenza e Sessualità. Educazione alla sessualità e prevenzione della pedofilia", IIPP Editore, Imperia, settembre 2002

Has participated in over 250 conferences, congresses and workshops, both national and international venues. Is regularly requested to make presentations and chair meetings.

Sustainable development, Ecology of the Mind, Ecology of the Environment: a technological development in harmony with the living beings and the environment

The author traces the development of the guideline of the WPA Section "Ecology, Psychiatry and Mental Health" back to their source and discusses the thinking of the psychiatrist Roger Montenegro who wrote in 1995 “The human species currently stands at a crucial stage. The ongoing damage we have done to the ecosystems we depend upon for our survival has led us to a situation in which it has become urgent to plan some sort of concerted action with the goal of realizing satisfying conditions for everybody.”

Following this, the author analyzes the impact environmental degradation has in deepening socioeconomic inequalities, poverty, hunger, analphabetism and diseases (mental diseases first of all). Some examples for these global processes can be found in the international dependency on raw materials, in neocolonialism and unfair trade exchange, and thus, more generally, in the evaluation of the social and economical dimensions, in conservation and management of the resources of development, in the strengthening of the principal bodies of human cooperation, in the cooperation between governments and the different international organizations and finally in the promotion of an ecological awareness.