Introduction -- The person as center of health -- Person-centered patient perspectives -- Person-centered family perspectives -- Health status from illness to wellbeing -- Contributory factors to health and illness -- The experience of and values in health -- Joint diagnostic understanding: Interviewing and assessment -- Shared decision-making between clinicians, patients and families -- Interdisciplinary team approach for clinical care -- Person-centered prevention -- Person-centered rehabilitation -- Person-centered health promotion -- Person-centered care for major mental disorders -- Person-centered care for psychiatric and general medical comorbidity -- Person-centered forensic psychiatry -- People-centered organization of psychiatric services -- Person-centered public mental health -- Person-centered psychiatric education -- Person-centered psychiatric and mental health research -- Epilogue.

This book presents an authoritative overview of individualized psychiatry. The text shifts the focus of psychiatry from organ and disease to the whole person as a part of a broader person-centered perspective in medicine. Written by experts in the field, the text covers the conceptual keystones of that 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. Person-Centered Psychiatry is an excellent resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, primary care physicians, social workers, and all medical professionals working in mental health.