Values in Psychiatry
Managing Complexity and Advancing Solutions

Examines the values and contribution of psychiatry from a values-based practice perspective, using specific conditions for illustration.

Robert B. Dudas (Edited by)

9781108793117, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 10 July 2025

256 pages
23.3 x 15.4 x 1.5 cm, 0.41 kg

'Values in Psychiatry by Dr Robert Dudas takes us on a fascinating journey from the historical origins of psychiatry through to understanding its place in Society today. Dr Dudas has assembled an array of authoritative and distinguished authors who remind us of the rich and vibrant nature of psychiatry and how it lies at the juxtaposition between arts and sciences. Particularly compelling is the way in which the importance of values is made accessible through using specific real-world exemplars, including depression, suicide, dementia, personality disorder and psychiatric services This book succeeds in informing, challenging and entertaining. It is highly recommended reading for anyone wishing to know more about mental health conditions and their treatment and the role of psychiatry today, both in clinical care and in Society.' John O'Brien, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry and NIHR Emeritus Senior Investigator, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge

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.

Foreword Kenneth W. M. Fulford
Introduction Robert B. Dudas
Part I. The Origins of the Profession and Its Different Perspectives: 1. The origins of psychiatry as a profession German E. Berrios and Ivana Marková
2. A history of psychology: values and person-centredness Robert B. Dudas
3. Psychiatry and values: perspectives from the social and cultural history of mental health Mathew Thomson
Part II. The Present and the Future: 4. Ailments of the mind Robert B. Dudas
5a. Psychiatry from within and in the media Robert B. Dudas
5b. The image of psychiatry and the figure of the psychiatrist in literature Femi Oyebode
6. Multidisciplinarity in psychiatry Robert B. Dudas, Elizabeth Fistein, Toby Williamson
7a. Progressive developments in psychiatry Robert B. Dudas and David Crepaz-Keay
7b. Using Values-Based Medicine at scale to provide holistic care for the frail elderly Ben Underwood and John Martin
8. More on the current climate in psychiatry Robert B. Dudas and Elizabeth Fistein
Part III. Common Clinical Conditions: The Relevance and Usefulness of A Values-Based Approach: 9. Mapping the value changes in depression and recovery Robert B. Dudas
10. Dementia: more than just memory Tom Dening and Malarvizhi Babu Sandilyan
11. The storm of values in borderline personality disorder: challenges and opportunities Robert B. Dudas
A new way of doing research in psychiatry: including values Robert B. Dudas
Conclusions Robert B. Dudas.

Subject Areas: Clinical psychology [MMJ]