Michel Botbol – författare

This book provides a comprehensive and clinically grounded account of psychodynamic treatment in child and adolescent psychiatry. Bringing together leading international contributors, it offers a developmentally structured approach spanning the entire trajectory from perinatality and infancy to childhood and adolescence.Combining theoretical depth with clinical applicability, the chapters include detailed case material and practical guidance across a wide range of clinical situations, including mood and anxiety disorders, trauma, eating disorders, and borderline functioning. Particular attention is given to contemporary challenges such as the psychodynamic dimensions of psychopharmacology and transcultural clinical practice.A distinctive feature of this volume is its integration of psychodynamic thinking within multidisciplinary and institutional settings, addressing therapeutic mediations, teamwork, supervision, and preventive approaches. By articulating a coherent and developmentally informed framework, the book demonstrates the continuing relevance of psychodynamic perspectives in modern psychiatric practice.This volume will be an essential resource for clinicians, trainees, and researchers seeking to integrate psychodynamic approaches into the care of children, adolescents, and their families.

This book presents an authoritative overview of the emerging field of person-centered psychiatry. This perspective, articulating science and humanism, arose within the World Psychiatric Association and aims to shift the focus of psychiatry from organ and disease to the whole person within their individual context. It is part of a broader person-centered perspective in medicine that is being advanced by the International College of Person-Centered Medicine through the annual Geneva Conferences held since 2008 in collaboration with the World Medical Association, the World Health Organization, the International Council of Nurses, the International Federation of Social Workers, and the International Alliance of Patients’ Organizations, among 30 other international health institutions.In this book, experts in the field cover all aspects of person-centered psychiatry, the conceptual keystones of which include ethical commitment; a holistic approach; a relationship focus; cultural sensitivity; individualized care; establishment of common ground among clinicians, patients, and families for joint diagnostic understanding and shared clinical decision-making; people-centered organization of services; and person-centered health education and research.