Humanising Psychiatry and Mental Health Care: the Challenge of the Person-Centred Approach

Content: Cover
 Title Page
 Copyright Page
 Contents
 Foreword
 Dedication
 Acknowledgements
 Introduction
 The aims
 The author
 Structure and style
 The audience
 A final introductory note
 Section One: Theoretical and philosophical challenges of the person-centred approach
 Chapter 1: What is the person-centred approach?
 Introduction
 Patient-centred, person-centred care and the person-centred approach: are you confused?
 Uses of the term 'patient-centred'
 The meaning of 'person-centred' within health care settings
 The person-centred approach in health care settings
 More than a type of therapy. The philosophical values of the person-centred approachThe main features of person-centred theory and practice
 Rogers' main theoretical interests
 Core principles
 Research
 Conclusion
 Chapter 2: A theory of personality and behaviour
 Introduction
 The 'organism' and the 'self'
 The 'actualising tendency'
 The development of personality and the 'self-concept'
 Psychological disturbance: a person-centred view
 Some criticisms of Rogers' theory of personality and behaviour
 The 'fully functioning person'
 Chapter 3: Who has th epow er and where is th eexpertise?
 Introduction. Thinking about powerAuthoritarian power within psychiatry
 Professional hierarchies and relationships with colleagues
 Organisational power
 Managing feelings of powerlessness
 Thinking about expertise and experts
 Person-centred theory relating to power and expertise
 Conclusion
 Chapter 4: Thinking about mental disorder: concepts and causes
 Introduction
 The concept of mental disorder
 Illness, disease and sickness
 Material realities and the triumph of scientific objectivity
 Carl Rogers on science and scientific knowledge
 Mind, brain and the 'mind/brain problem' Causes of mental disorderThe disease model
 Psychological models
 Social models
 The biopsychosocial model
 Predispositions and triggers
 The person-centred approach to psychopathology
 Conclusion
 Chapter 5: What is wrong with me? Assessment, diagnosis and the medical model Introduction
 Introduction
 Assessment
 Phenomenology: being objective about the subjective
 Psychodiagnosis: the Holy Grail of psychiatry
 Arguments supporting diagnosis
 Arguments against diagnosis
 The person-centred approach to assessment and diagnosis
 Explaining and understanding
 The 'locus of evaluation' The non-directive attitudeConclusion
 Chapter 6: Health, healing or cure? The person-centred approach to treatment
 Introduction
 Health, healing or cure?
 What drives mental health policy?
 Psychiatric versus person-centred approaches to treatment
 Any place for person-centred therapy?
 Freedom: a right, a capacity and a responsibility
 Risk and accountability
 Section Two: Practical applications of the person-centred approach
 Chapter 7: The healing pow er of relationship
 Introduction
 The significance of relationship
 Can mental health services offer healing relationships?