Values in Psychiatry
Managing Complexity and Advancing Solutions
Published on 10. July 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-108-79311-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
'Values in Psychiatry by Dr Robert Dudas takes us on a fascinating journey from the historical origins of psychiatry through to understanding its place in Society today. Dr Dudas has assembled an array of authoritative and distinguished authors who remind us of the rich and vibrant nature of psychiatry and how it lies at the juxtaposition between arts and sciences. Particularly compelling is the way in which the importance of values is made accessible through using specific real-world exemplars, including depression, suicide, dementia, personality disorder and psychiatric services This book succeeds in informing, challenging and entertaining. It is highly recommended reading for anyone wishing to know more about mental health conditions and their treatment and the role of psychiatry today, both in clinical care and in Society.' John O'Brien, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry and NIHR Emeritus Senior Investigator, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, CambridgeMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
395 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-79311-7 (9781108793117)
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Person
Robert B. Dudas is a Consultant Psychiatrist, for the Older People's Mental Health Service (OPMHS) at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, UK. He is also a Visiting Researcher in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, and an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. During his career, he has combined clinical work, academic research, and teaching and his research interests span widely across various psychiatric conditions and methodologies, from neuroscience to the medical humanities.
Content
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 Markova; 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.