Health ministry of republic of moldova the university of medicine and pharmacy nicolae testemiţanu

2. Main concepts of psychohygiene 
Psychohygiene
is the science of the protection and the acquisition 
of the mental health. The psychohygiene is an important protection 
factor, against the emergence of 
burnout syndromes.
 
The term was used already in the year 1900 by the german 
psychiatrist Robert Summer (1864 - 1937), which justified 1896 the 
psychiatric hospital pouring.
C. W. Beers postulated the 
major tasks of the psychohygiene
as: 

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- Providing for the preservation of the mental health, preventing of spirit 
and nervous diseases and defect conditions. 
- Perfection of the treatment and care that psychologically patients.
- Clearing-up over the meaning of the psychological anomalies for the 
problems of the education, the economic life, that criminality and at all 
the human behaviors.
These tasks are to be fulfilled by promotion of the social welfare 
service and cooperating with public and private social institutions. 
Tasks according to 
World Federation of Mental Health
: “Mental 
health means a condition, which favors the optimal physical, intellectual 
and emotional development of the individual, as far as this development 
with other individuals gets along. A healthy society is that, which 
secures such a development of its members and around its own upward 
development, under tolerance opposite at the same time is differently 
anxious to societies.” 
K. Mierke sees 
three levels of the psychohygiene:
1. The preventive psychohygiene has the healthy attitude of the 
individual and the society as a goal.
2. The restitutive psychohygiene is to be introduced in anxious life 
crises or conflict situations promptly as regenerative and corrective 
measures.
3. The curative psychohygiene takes care of restrictions already 
existing, in order to heal these with clinical or psychotherapeutical 
procedures.