One of the paradoxes about psychiatry is that we have never known more about and better treated mental disorders, yet there exists so much unease about the practice of mental healthcare. Patients feel still stigmatised, psychiatrists are struggling with their roles in a rapidly changing system of healthcare, and there is a lack of consensus about what mental disorders are and what the focus of psychiatry should be. Person-Centred Care in Psychiatry: Self Relational, Contextual and Normative Perspectives offers a distinctive approach to two important linked conceptual issues in psychiatry: the relation between self, context, and psychopathology; and the intrinsic normativity of psychiatry as a practice.
Key Features
- Divided into two parts, showing how the clinical conception of psychopathology and psychiatry as normative practice are intrinsically connected.
- Explores the normative practice model as a natural extension of the analysis of the web of relations that sustain illness behaviour and professional role fulfilment.
- Addresses concerns about scientistic tendencies within psychiatry.
- Engages academics and professionals interested in the philosophy of psychology, psychiatry, and mental health-care.
Additional Information
This book brings these topics together for the first time against the backdrop of unease about the practice of mental healthcare.
