Person Centered Psychiatry

Juan E. Mezzich MD PhDEditor in Chief, International Journal of Person Centered Medicine; Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USAGeorge N Christodoulou MD PhDHonorary Fellow, World Psychiatric Association;  Former President, World Federation for Mental Health; Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of Athens, Athens, GreeceMichel 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, FranceKevin M. Cloninger PhDPresident, Anthropedia Foundation, Ihsan M. Salloum MD MPHBoard 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

Introduction.- The person as center of health.- Person-centered patient perspectives.- Person-centered family perspectives.- Health status from illness to wellbeing.- Contributory factors to health and illness.- The experience of and values in health.- Joint diagnostic understanding: Interviewing and assessment.- Shared decision-making between clinicians, patients and families.- Interdisciplinary team approach for clinical care.- Person-centered prevention.- Person-centered rehabilitation.- Person-centered health promotion.- Person-centered care for major mental disorders.- Person-centered care for psychiatric and general medical comorbidity.- Person-centered forensic psychiatry.- People-centered organization of psychiatric services.- Person-centered public mental health.- Person-centered psychiatric education.- Person-centered psychiatric and mental health research.- Epilogue.

"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)