Values in Psychiatry. Managing Complexity and Advancing Solutions

• Historical analysis of the origins of psychiatry and its social context demonstrates and explains the origin and causes of the hybrid natural and social scientific nature of psychiatry both at theoretical and clinical level and the role of values in applying scientific understanding in clinical practice
• Featuring chapters on both theory and practice in psychiatry written by a team with a variety of professional backgrounds and lived experience of mental illness
• The use of three clinical conditions, as examples, and providing methodological guidance on how to work with values in clinical practice (i.e., clinical value mapping) improves clinicians’ awareness and knowledge about values and their ability to reason and communicate about values, including in common and challenging clinical situations

CONTENTS

Foreword Kenneth W. M. Fulford

Introduction Robert B. Dudas

Part I. The Origins of the Profession and Its Different Perspectives:

1. The origins of psychiatry as a profession German E. Berrios and Ivana Marková

2. A history of psychology: values and person-centredness Robert B. Dudas

3. Psychiatry and values: perspectives from the social and cultural history of mental health Mathew Thomson

Part II. The Present and the Future:

4. Ailments of the mind Robert B. Dudas

5a. Psychiatry from within and in the media Robert B. Dudas

5b. The image of psychiatry and the figure of the psychiatrist in literature Femi Oyebode

6. Multidisciplinarity in psychiatry Robert B. Dudas, Elizabeth Fistein, Toby Williamson

7a. Progressive developments in psychiatry Robert B. Dudas and David Crepaz-Keay

7b. Using Values-Based Medicine at scale to provide holistic care for the frail elderly Ben Underwood and John Martin

8. More on the current climate in psychiatry Robert B. Dudas and Elizabeth Fistein

Part III. Common Clinical Conditions: The Relevance and Usefulness of A Values-Based Approach:

9. Mapping the value changes in depression and recovery Robert B. Dudas

10. Dementia: more than just memory Tom Dening and Malarvizhi Babu Sandilyan

11. The storm of values in borderline personality disorder: challenges and opportunities Robert B. Dudas

A new way of doing research in psychiatry: including values Robert B. Dudas

Conclusions Robert B. Dudas.