Values in Psychiatry (Paperback)

Robert B. Dudas

ISBN 10: 1108793118 / ISBN 13: 9781108793117

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2025

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Paperback. 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. A multidisciplinary team of authors investigate the role of values in the prevention, development, treatment, and recovery from mental illness and the valuable contributions of psychiatry from their own professional perspectives. An essential read for academic and clinical psychiatrists and mental health professionals. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Values in Psychiatry (Paperback)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108793118
• ISBN 13: 9781108793117
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.