Book contents
- Values in Psychiatry
- Values in Psychiatry
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I The Origins of the Profession and Its Different Perspectives
- Part II The Present and the Future
- Part III Common Clinical Conditions: The Relevance and Usefulness of a Values-Based Approach
- Chapter 11 Mapping the Value Changes in Depression and Recovery
- Chapter 12 Dementia
- Chapter 13 The Storm of Values in Borderline Personality Disorder
- Chapter 14 A New Way of Doing Research in Psychiatry
- Conclusion
- Index
- References
Chapter 14 - A New Way of Doing Research in Psychiatry
Including Values
from Part III - Common Clinical Conditions: The Relevance and Usefulness of a Values-Based Approach
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Book contents
- Values in Psychiatry
- Values in Psychiatry
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I The Origins of the Profession and Its Different Perspectives
- Part II The Present and the Future
- Part III Common Clinical Conditions: The Relevance and Usefulness of a Values-Based Approach
- Chapter 11 Mapping the Value Changes in Depression and Recovery
- Chapter 12 Dementia
- Chapter 13 The Storm of Values in Borderline Personality Disorder
- Chapter 14 A New Way of Doing Research in Psychiatry
- Conclusion
- Index
- References
Summary
Developing a satisfactory explanation of the pathomechanism of mental illness, developing biomarkers to aid diagnosis, developing an aetiological classification system, and developing effective treatments to achieve both symptom elimination and functional recovery has so far remained the holy grail of psychiatry for most conditions. To make progress, psychiatric research needs to integrate the biological, psychological, sociocultural, and existential dimensions of mental illness and incorporate and work with values more efficiently. This chapter offers a methodology for this through first describing value-mapping and then elucidating the potential contribution of qualitative and mixed-method studies, phenomenological, hermeneutic, and other idiographic approaches, interpretative phenomenological analysis, analytic induction, quasi-judicial approaches, and the history of psychiatry.
An essential prerequisite of any breakthrough here would be going back to the person level. Research centres would need to become truly multidisciplinary to bring together researchers with expertise in the relevant natural and social sciences and the medical humanities as well as experts by experience for effective co-production.
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