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Psychiatry for the person and its conceptual bases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

George Christodoulou ,
Bill Fulford  and
Juan E. Mezzich
George Christodoulou
Affiliation:
Psychiatry, National and Kapodistrian University, Athens; Hellenic Centre of Mental Health; WPA Standing Committee on Ethics; WPA IPPP Conceptual Component
Bill Fulford
Affiliation:
Philosophy and Mental Health, University of Warwick; Institute of Philosophy, Diversity and Mental Health, University of Central Lancashire; Special Advisor for Values-Based Practice, Department of Health, London
Juan E. Mezzich
Affiliation:
Psychiatry, International Center for Mental Health, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York University; World Psychiatric Association (WPA); WPA Institutional Program on Psychiatry for the Person (IPPP), email juanmezzich@wpanet.org
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The 2005 General Assembly of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) established the Institutional Program on Psychiatry for the Person (IPPP) in response both to a recognition of our profession's historical aspirations and to recent international developments in clinical care and public health. These considerations point to the relevance of a comprehensive understanding of health and the centrality of the person in the delivery and the planning of healthcare. The IPPP's goals can be summarised as the promotion of a psychiatry of the person (of the totality of the person's health, both ill and positive), by the person (with clinicians extending themselves as full human beings), for the person (assisting the fulfilment of the person's life project) and with the person (in respectful collaboration with the person who consults). Operationally, the IPPP has four components: conceptual bases, clinical diagnosis, clinical care, and public health. What follows is an initial review of the IPPP's conceptual bases and an outline of its emerging activities.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , January 2008 , pp. 1 - 3
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