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Values in Psychiatry

Values in Psychiatry

Values in Psychiatry

Managing Complexity and Advancing Solutions
Robert B. Dudas, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
June 2025
Paperback
9781108793117
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    This fascinating book brings together a multidisciplinary team of authors from a variety of backgrounds and lived experience who offer insight into the historical roots and current reasons for the hybrid natural and social scientific conceptual platform of psychiatry. The role of values in the development and recovery from mental illness are covered as well as progressive developments, outlining a novel research methodology. Demonstrating the importance of the integration of each main dimension of psychiatry (such as biological, psychological, social, and existential), the book includes values in theory and research in working out the epistemological foundations of psychiatry as an academic discipline and in clinical practice. Covering the major directions from which the subject of mental ill health has been approached (neurobiology, psychoanalysis and the psychotherapies), the common conditions and the controversies surrounding them are explored. Highly relevant to academics, clinicians and students in psychiatry, psychology, primary and social care.

    • 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

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    June 2025
    Paperback
    9781108793117
    256 pages
    234 × 156 mm
    Not yet published - available from June 2025

    Table of 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.
      Contributors
    • Kenneth W. M. Fulford, Robert B. Dudas, German E. Berrios, Ivana Marková, Mathew Thomson, Femi Oyebode, Elizabeth Fistein, Toby Williamson, David Crepaz-Keay, Ben Underwood, John Martin, Tom Dening, Malarvizhi Babu Sandilyan