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A report submitted to the World Health Assembly provided a systematic description of activities that could be undertaken by the health sector and by other social sectors to prevent the appearance of mental and neurological disorders. It estimated that, in many countries, as much as one third to one half of all mental and neurological disorders could be averted by primary prevention methods. A few years later, a follow-up report showed that some progress had been made but that, on the whole, primary prevention of mental and neurological disorders remained neglected in most settings. This text aims to make a contribution to the effort of correcting the neglect of prevention in psychiatry by presenting methods of prevention and their usefulness. The book contains selected papers from the symposium of the WPA Section on Preventive Psychiatry held during the course of the 10th World Congress of Psychiatry, as well as invited papers by mental health workers in the field of psychiatric prevention. It is a follow-up to “Aspects of Preventive Psychiatry” (Karger, 1981) and “Topics in Preventive Psychiatry” (Karger, 1994).