The Principles of Clinical Assessment in General Psychiatry
The Principles of Clinical Assessment in General Psychiatry John E. Cooper Margaret Oates Introduction This chapter is focused on the needs of the clinician in a service for general adult…
Descriptive Phenomenology
Descriptive Phenomenology Andrew Sims Principles of descriptive phenomenology Definitions and explanations Psychopathology is the systematic study of abnormal experience, cognition, and behaviour. It includes the explanatory psychopathologies, where there are…
The Psychiatrist as a Manager
The Psychiatrist as a Manager Juan J. López-Ibor Jr. Costas Stefanis Introduction: integrating two perspectives The past years have witnessed the introduction and implementation of strict macro and micro economical…
Values and Values-Based Practice in Clinical Psychiatry
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
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
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
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
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
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
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….
