Introduction to the Conceptual Bases of Psychiatry for the Person
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Mezzich JE, Christodoulou GN, Fulford BK. [Introduction to the Conceptual Bases of Psychiatry for the Person]. Rossiiskii psikhiatricheskii zhurnal [Russian Journal of Psychiatry]. 2016;(5):9-14. Russian
Person-centered psychiatry involves a paradigmatic effort to refocus our field from disease to patient to person by articulating science and humanism. The extension of the person-centered approach to medicine at large adds to its depth and value. Furthermore, there is an urgent need to overcome reductionism by embracing the complex in clinical practice, as well as to display compassion, consolation, empathy, insight, discernment and intuition in parallel and full integration with scientifically informed strategies to ameliorate, attenuate and cure. We hope that the set of papers presented in this monographic endeavor will illuminate productively the complexity to be grasped and delineate promising paths towards a psychiatry and medicine for the whole person.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24411/1560-957X-2016-1%25x
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