Psychiatry for the person.

Area of Science:

• Integrative medicine
• Bioethics
• Philosophy of medicine

Background:

• The Psychiatry for the Person Programme of the World Psychiatric Association.
• Wider medical context including ethics, religion, spirituality, and person-centred medicine.
• 'Medicine of the person' as developed by Tournier.

Purpose of the Study:

• To review recent work on person-centred care within a broader medical and philosophical context.
• To identify needs for future research and conceptual development in healthcare.

Main Methods:

• Literature review of recent publications.
• Synthesis of concepts from psychiatry, ethics, religion, spirituality, and person-centred medicine.
• Analysis of the bio-psychosocial model in light of new scientific and philosophical knowledge.

Main Results:

• Urgent need for evaluative outcome studies of person-centred care.
• Necessity for incorporating service user narratives and rigorous scientific methods.
• Requirement for new conceptual models and reformulation of the bio-psychosocial model.

Conclusions:

• A biosocial/psychospiritual (BSPS) approach to relationship-based healthcare should be actively considered.
• Integration of neurosciences, philosophy, anthropology, ethics, and theology is crucial for advancing healthcare models.