Description:
Person-Centred Care in Psychiatry: Self Relational, Contextual and Normative Perspectives offers a distinctive approach to two important linked conceptual issues in psychiatry: the relation between self, context, and psychopathology; and the intrinsic normativity of psychiatry as a practice.
Review Quotes:
"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