Person-Centred Care in Psychiatry

Gerrit Glas is a practicing psychiatrist and professor of philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit and the Amsterdam University Medical Centre. His main interest is in conceptual and normative issues at the intersection of psychiatry, philosophy, neuroscience, and society.

"A product of many years of deliberation, scholarly conversation, and refinement, Glas’ Person-Centered Care in Psychiatry is his vision of a psychiatry which is both scientifically and humanistically rigorous. Optimistic in temperament and outlook, Glas’ work builds a psychiatry that is equally comfortable with molecules, brains, people, relationships, institutions, and societies." - John Z. Sadler, MD, The Daniel W. Foster, M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics, Professor of Psychiatry & Clinical Sciences, UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX"Gerrit Glas is a distinguished and well-known philosophical thinker who is also a practicing clinician. Philosophers working in the mental health research field are rarely equipped to say much of value about practice, and the practitioners who write are not often persuasive on the philosophical background, especially on complex issues to do with normativity, contextual influences and personhood. This makes Glas’s work exceedingly rare and especially welcome." - Jennifer Radden, D.Phil. Oxon., Professor emerita of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts Boston"Gerrit Glas’ synthesis of the Dutch philosopher Herman Dooyeweerd’s work with the more familiar philosophical systems of Sören Kierkegaard and Paul Ricoeur, brings a refreshingly original slant to contemporary debates about the role of science in person-centred psychiatry." - Professor Bill (K.W.M.) Fulford, Fellow of St Catherine’s College and Director of the Collaborating Centre for Values-based Practice, University of Oxford

• Preface Introduction 1. Psychiatry in need of philosophy Part I: Self, Context, and Psychopathology 2. Self-relatedness, psychopathology, and the context: A clinical perspective 3. Self-relatedness, psychopathology, and the context: The concept of disease 4. Self-relatedness, psychopathology, and the context: The concept of self Part II: Psychiatry as Normative Practice 5. Being a professional: Self-relatedness and normativity 6. Toward a normative practice approach for mental healthcare 7. Psychiatry in contexts 8. Philosophical backgrounds Conclusion 9. Person-centered care in psychiatry: Future prospects