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Person Centered Psychiatry

  • Authoritative overview of the emerging field
  • Focuses on the whole person within their individual context
  • Coverage of person-centered care for a wide range of major mental disorders
  • Emphasis on shared decision-making and an interdisciplinary team approach?
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (40 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Introduction to Person-Centered Psychiatry

    • Juan E. Mezzich, Michel Botbol, George N. Christodoulou, C. Robert Cloninger, Ihsan M. Salloum
    Pages 1-15
  3. Principles

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
    2. The Person as Center of Health

      • Eric Cassell, Drozdstoj S. Stoyanov
      Pages 19-34
    3. Ethics in Person-Centered Psychiatry

      • George N. Christodoulou, C. W. Van Staden, D. Jousset, M. Schwartz, A. Mishara
      Pages 35-45
    4. Holistic Framework for Ill Health and Positive Health

      • C. Robert Cloninger, Kevin M. Cloninger, Juan E. Mezzich
      Pages 47-59
    5. Subjectivity, Intersubjectivity, and Psychological Functioning

      • Michel Botbol, Dusica Lecic-Tosevski
      Pages 61-66
    6. The Role of Communication

      • Marijana Braš, Veljko Đorđević, Roger Ruiz-Moral, Myriam Deveugele, Rodrigo Ramalho, Peter Pype
      Pages 67-76
    7. Cultural Awareness and Responsiveness in Person-Centered Psychiatry

      • Laurence J. Kirmayer, Rachid Bennegadi, Marianne C. Kastrup
      Pages 77-95
    8. Recovery, Empowerment, and Person Centeredness

      • Margit Schmolke, Michaela Amering, Alessandro Svettini
      Pages 97-111
    9. Person-Centered Patient Perspectives

      • Joanna Groves
      Pages 113-125
    10. Person-Centered Family Perspectives

      • Alessandro Svettini, Sigrid Steffen, Spyros Zorbas
      Pages 127-136
  4. Diagnosis and Assessment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
    2. Person-Centered Integrative Diagnosis and Its Context

      • Juan E. Mezzich, Ihsan M. Salloum, C. Robert Cloninger, Michel Botbol
      Pages 139-155
    3. Health Status: From Illness to Wellbeing

      • Ihsan M. Salloum, C. Robert Cloninger, Luis Salvador-Carulla, Angel A. Otero
      Pages 157-164
    4. Health Contributory Factors

      • Javier E. Saavedra, Eugenio Villar-Montesinos, Michel Botbol
      Pages 165-177
    5. Health Experience and Values in Person-Centered Assessment and Diagnosis

      • Laurence J. Kirmayer, Juan E. Mezzich, C. W. Van Staden
      Pages 179-199
    6. Categories, Dimensions, and Narratives for Person-Centered Diagnostic Assessment

      • Michel Botbol, Claudio E. M. Banzato, Luis Salvador-Carulla
      Pages 201-208
  5. Person Centered Care Approaches

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209
    2. Interdisciplinary Team Approach to Clinical Care

      • Tesfamicael Ghebrehiwet, Maria Ammon, Ilse Burbiel, Michel Botbol
      Pages 211-222

About this book

This book presents an authoritative overview of the emerging field of person-centered psychiatry. This perspective, articulating science and humanism, arose within the World Psychiatric Association and aims to shift the focus of psychiatry from organ and disease to the whole person within their individual context. It is part of a broader person-centered perspective in medicine that is being advanced by the International College of Person-Centered Medicine through the annual Geneva Conferences held since 2008 in collaboration with the World Medical Association, the World Health Organization, the International Council of Nurses, the International Federation of Social Workers, and the International Alliance of Patients’ Organizations, among 30 other international health institutions.

In this book, experts in the field cover all aspects of person-centered psychiatry, the conceptual keystones of which include ethical commitment; a holistic approach; a relationship focus; cultural sensitivity; individualized care; establishment of common ground among clinicians, patients, and families for joint diagnostic understanding and shared clinical decision-making; people-centered organization of services; and person-centered health education and research.



Reviews

“Person Centered Psychiatry should prove to be an unavoidable reference for future study of person centered psychiatry and a milestone in development of the whole field, this book can also be used as a great introduction into the field of person centered medicine for all of those seeking a holistic psychiatric perspective with an emphasis on ethical, cultural and relationship issues.” (Vjekoslav Peitl, Alcoholism and Psychiatry Research, Vol. 53 (1), 2017)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of Psychiatry, New York University Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA

    Juan E. Mezzich

  • Laboratory Ethics, Professionalism, University of Western Brittany, Bohars, France

    Michel Botbol

  • Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    George N. Christodoulou

  • Department of Psychiatry, WASHINGTON UNIV SCH MED Department of Psychiatry, Saint Louis, USA

    C. Robert Cloninger

  • Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Coral Gables, USA

    Ihsan M. Salloum

About the editors

Juan E. Mezzich MD PhD
Editor in Chief, International Journal of Person Centered Medicine; 
Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 
New York, USA




George N Christodoulou MD PhD
Honorary Fellow, World Psychiatric Association;  
Former President, World Federation for Mental Health; 
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of Athens, 
Athens, Greece




Michel Botbol MD, 
Board Director, International College of Person Centered Medicine; 
Chair, World Psychiatric Association Section on Psychoanalysis in Psychiatry; 
Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 
University of Western Brittany, Brest, France



Kevin M. Cloninger PhD
President, Anthropedia Foundation, 

Ihsan M. Salloum MD MPH
Board Director, International College of Person Centered Medicine; 
Chair, Section on Classification, Diagnostic Assessment and Nomenclature, 
World Psychiatric Association; Professor of Psychiatry, 
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, 
Miami, Florida, USA







Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Person Centered Psychiatry

  • Editors: Juan E. Mezzich, Michel Botbol, George N. Christodoulou, C. Robert Cloninger, Ihsan M. Salloum

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39724-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-39722-1Published: 13 February 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81949-5Published: 12 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-39724-5Published: 26 January 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 569

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Psychiatry, Psychology, general, General Practice / Family Medicine, Internal Medicine

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  • Durable hardcover edition
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