Person centered psychiatric medicine

Abstract EN

ore than any other branch of medicine, psychiatric medicine is keenly focused on the individual.

No two cases are exactly alike in psychiatric practice.

This not only involves the differential appraisal of mental health for various individuals, but also for the differential delivery of management of their ill health including both pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy.

The family also acquires a pivotal position in person-centered psychiatric practice in the Arab world.

In addition, psychiatric research especially in social psychiatry recognized the social person-centered correlates of mental ill health at the levels of psychogenesis and interpersonal consequences.

Training in mental health needs also to consider the personal qualities of the trainees and their trainers.

In the Arab world, the personal dimension in psychiatry has been observed long before the term “person-centered” was introduced to describe personalized clinical care in medical practice.