Values and Values-Based Practice in Clinical Psychiatry K. W. M. Fulford Introduction Values-based practice is a new skills-based approach to working more effectively with complex and conflicting values in health…
Psychiatric Ethics Sidney Bloch Stephen Green A myriad of ethical problems pervade clinical practice and research in psychiatry. Yet with few exceptions,(1, 2 and 3) psychiatric ethics has generally been…
The History of Psychiatry as a Medical Specialty Pierre Pichot Introduction In 1918, Emil Kraepelin wrote:(1) A hundred years ago, they were practically no alienists. The care of the mental…
Transcultural Psychiatry Julian Leff Clinical relevance of transcultural psychiatry With the mass movements of populations that have characterized the second half of the twentieth century, there can be few psychiatrists…
Mental Disorders as a Worldwide Public Health Issue Benedetto Saraceno Magnitude and burden of mental disorders The twentieth century has witnessed significant improvements in somatic health in most countries. A…
Public Attitudes and the Challenge of Stigma Graham Thornicroft Elaine Brohan Aliya Kassam Introduction The starting point for this discussion is the idea of stigma. This term (plural stigmata) was…
The Patient’s Perspective Kay Redfield Jamison Richard Jed Wyatt† Adam Ian Kaplin †Deceased. It is difficult to be a psychiatric patient, but a good doctor can make it less so….
Alzheimer’s Disease HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE Human Longevity Although historic records indicate that older people have always existed, old age was once rare. Before the 20th century, few people lived beyond 50…
Schizophrenia HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE Over 100 years ago, Emil Kraepelin, a German psychiatrist, described the syndrome now called schizophrenia. Bleuler actually coined the term schizophrenia. Kraepelin called it dementia praecox. Kraepelin’s…
