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Person Centered Approach to Recovery in Medicine

Insights from Psychosomatic Medicine and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

  • Addresses psychosocial screening, assessment and treatment for common disorders
  • Puts forward methods for integrating psychiatric care into primary care settings
  • Written by respected international experts

Part of the book series: Integrating Psychiatry and Primary Care (IPPC)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Clinical Concepts and Methods in Psychosomatic Medicine

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
    2. Psychosomatic and Biopsychosocial Medicine: Body-Mind Relationship, Its Roots, and Current Challenges

      • Luigi Grassi, Thomas Wise, David Cockburn, Rosangela Caruso, Michelle B. Riba
      Pages 19-36
    3. Psychosomatic and Person-Centered Medicine

      • Juan E. Mezzich, Ihsan M. Salloum
      Pages 37-55
    4. Clinimetric Assessment in Psychosomatic Medicine

      • Fiammetta Cosci, Giovanni A. Fava
      Pages 79-94
  3. The Clinical Contexts of Psychosomatic Medicine

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
    2. Dignity-Conserving Care in Medicine

      • Luigi Grassi, Harvey Chochinov, Giuseppe Moretto, Maria Giulia Nanni
      Pages 97-115
    3. Cross-Cultural Issues

      • Ilaria Tarricone, Iris T. Graef-Calliess, Nasim Chaudhry, Marianne Kastrup, Domenico Berardi, Dinesh Bhugra et al.
      Pages 117-136
    4. Prevention in Psychosomatic Medical Care and Rehabilitation

      • Richard Fielding, Wendy Lam
      Pages 137-161
    5. Communication and Relational Skills in Medicine

      • Carmel Loughland, Philippa Ditton-Phare, David W. Kissane
      Pages 163-176
    6. A Psychosomatic Approach of Anorexia Nervosa

      • Thibaut Lebailly, Stéphane Saint-André, Stephane Laplace, Anne-Sophie Lancien-Dereine, Adeline Gourbil, Michel Botbol
      Pages 249-260
  4. Integrated Intervention

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 261-261
    2. The Role of Integrated Interventions in Psychosomatic Diseases

      • Massimo Biondi, Francesco Saverio Bersani, Massimo Pasquini
      Pages 263-277
    3. Organization of Psychosomatic Service in Health Systems: The German Perspective

      • Stephan Zipfel, Anne Herrmann-Werner, Florian Junne
      Pages 289-302

About this book

This book offers a resource to aid in implementing psychosocial screening, assessment, and consequently integrating prevention, care and treatment (i.e. pharmacological, psychosocial rehabilitation and psychotherapeutic) in medicine.  It is becoming increasingly recognized that one method of combating spiraling health care costs in developed nations is to integrate psychiatric care into medicine  including primary care settings.  This volume reviews the main issues relative  to the paradigm of a person-centered and recovery-oriented approach that should  imbue all medical areas and specialties. It  proposes integration methods in screening and assessment, clinimetric approach,  dignity conserving care, cross-cultural and ethical aspects, treatment and training  as a basic and mandatory  need of a whole  psychosomatic approach bridging the several specialties in medicine.  As such, the book addresses a topic that all physicians,including primary care and psychiatric professionals in a wide variety of mental health settings are currently discussing, planning and preoccupied with, namely the task of integrating mental health into all the medical fields, including  primary care, cardiology, psychiatry, oncology and so on. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Biomedical and Specialty Surgical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

    Luigi Grassi

  • University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center, Ann Arbor, USA

    Michelle B. Riba

  • Inova Fairfax Hospital, Johns Hopkins University Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, USA

    Thomas Wise

About the editors

Luigi  Grassi, M.D.,M.A.,  is Professor and Chair of Psychiatry, Director of the University Hospital Psychiatry Unit and Dean of the Department of BioMedical and Specialty Surgical Sciences at the University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.  Dr. Grassi’s clinical and research interests are in the area of  consultation-liaison psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine, psycho-oncology, and psychosocial rehabilitation in psychiatry. He has been the President of the International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS) (2006-2008) and Chair  of the Federation of Psycho-Oncology Societies (2008-2016). He  is currently Chair of the World Psychiatric Association-WPA Section on Psycho-Oncology & Palliative Care, and co-Chair of the  WPA Section on Psychiatry, Medicine  and Primary Care, President of  the  Italian Society of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, and of the Italian Association of Cognitve-Analytic Therapy. Dr. Grassi is in the board of several international journals and  author of about 150  scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals, chapter of books and books related to psycho-oncology and psychiatric aspects of medical illness. He co-authored the book  Delirium- Acute confusional states in palliative medicine (Oxford University Press, 2011, 2nd edition) and co-edited with Michelle Riba the books Clinical Psycho-Oncology: An International perspective (Wiley, 2012) and Psycho-pharmacology in oncology and palliative care (Springer, 2014). 

Michelle B. Riba, M.D., MS, DFAPA, FAPM, is clinical professor and Associate Director of the University of Michigan Comprehensive Depression Center, and Director of the PsychOncology Program at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Riba is Past President of the American Psychiatric Association and Past Secretary, World Psychiatric Association Scientific Publications. Dr. Riba’s clinical and research interests include primary care psychiatry, depression and cardiovascular disease, psychoncology, and the role of screening for distress in patients with medical illness. She has served on the editorial board of Psychiatric Services and Cancer News on the Net, Current Psychiatry, section editor of Current Psychiatry Reports, Deputy Editor of Psychiatric Times, and has served on the editorial advisory board of the American Psychiatric Press, Inc. She is a reviewer for Psycho-Oncology; Academic Psychiatry; Psychiatric Services; Journal of Psychiatric Practice; and Psychosomatic Medicine; Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. She has co-edited 15 editions of The American Psychiatric Press Review of Psychiatry series. She has co-edited Psychopharmacology and Psychotherapy: A Collaborative Approach; Primary Care Psychiatry; and The Doctor-Patient Relationship in Pharmacotherapy: Improving Treatment Effectiveness and has edited or co-written another 30 books.

Thomas Wise, M.D.,  is Professor of Psychiatry at George Washington University and at the Virginia Commonwealth University as well as Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He has working in general medical settings as well as oncology units as a consulting psychiatrist. He edited Psychosomatics for two decades and is currently on the editorial board of Psychosomatic Medicine.  He has been president of the American Psychosomatic Society;The Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine;and the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine.  He has published over 315 peer reviewed papers and textbook chapters.  As recently co authored PsychoOncology with Massimo Biondi and Anna Costantini.  His research interests have been coping styles in the medical ill and alexithymia.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Person Centered Approach to Recovery in Medicine

  • Book Subtitle: Insights from Psychosomatic Medicine and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

  • Editors: Luigi Grassi, Michelle B. Riba, Thomas Wise

  • Series Title: Integrating Psychiatry and Primary Care

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74736-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74735-4Published: 21 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74736-1Published: 07 December 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2522-5693

  • Series E-ISSN: 2522-5707

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 319

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology, Primary Care Medicine

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