Integrated psychiatry is a worldwide developing movement that aims at the integration of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) into conventional psychiatry, based on scientific experiments into safety and effectiveness. CAM is diagnosis, treatment and/or prevention which complements mainstream medicine by contributing to a common whole, by satisfying a demand not met by orthodoxy or by diversifying the conceptual frameworks of medicine (Ernst e.a. 1995).
The integrated approach of medicine is supported by the European Parliament and the World Health Organization (EP, 1997; WHO, 2003) and is successfully being applied by no less than 39 medical academic centers in Northern America. The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has acknowledged the integrated psychiatry as well ...   Integrative Psychiatry

Lentis is the first health care organization in the Netherlands that founded a Center for Integrative Psychiatry (CIP) where patient care, research and education are equally important. Additionally the CIP organizes the Dutch Conference on Integrative Psychiatry. After four successful years in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2010, with great pleasure we announce the Fifth Conference on Integrative Psychiatry to be held on the 20th of April 2012 in Groningen, The Netherlands ...   Conference 2012