Positive Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychology, 1st ed. 2020
Clinical Applications

Coordinators: Messias Erick, Peseschkian Hamid, Cagande Consuelo

Language: English
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For hundreds of years, psychology has looked into the dysfunctions and symptoms of the mind. It?s only over the last few decades that the field has started to pay attention to what constitutes a functional and content life. Instead of using disease to understand health, positive psychology studies the components of a good life and helps people not only avoid mental health problems but develop happiness. The work done in positive psychology is now at a point where applications are being developed in positive psychotherapy and extended to those with psychiatric diagnoses in positive psychiatry. While these fields are a recent development they hold the promise of helping all of us live a fulfilled life.

Medicine in general, and psychiatry in particular, suffers from a worldview that is symptom- and deficit-oriented. By adopting a positive approach, psychology, psychotherapy, and psychiatry add a more holistic, integrative, resource oriented, and preventive perspective. There is great urgency in developing resources and potentials in our patients, not only freeing them from their disorders.

Psychiatrists and psychotherapists alike are incorporating these positive tools into their practices with positive clinical outcomes. Standing on the shoulders of pioneers like Nossrat Peseschkian, in positive psychotherapy, and Dilip Jeste, in positive psychiatry, this textbook is the first to bring together these innovations in one volume that will serve as an excellent resource for medical professionals looking to reap the benefits gained by the studies in these areas.  Currently, the majority of texts that are available are targeting psychologists and researchers, whereas this book seeks to use positive psychology as the foundation on which the clinical applications are built.

As such, this book will be of interest to psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and other mental health professionals. It may be used in educating a new generation of mental health professionals in these tenets that are expanding the reach of psychology, the practice of psychotherapy, and the scope of psychiatry.

Part 1: Basic Concepts, Background, and History
1. Positive Psychiatry: An Introduction
2. Positive Psychotherapy: An Introduction
3. Positive Psychology: An Introduction

Part 2: Staying Positive Through Life
4. Positive Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
5. Positive Psychiatry in Midlife
6. Professional well-being
7. Successful Aging
8. Life Balance with Positive Psychotherapy

Part 3: Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Disorders
9. Positive interventions in Depression
10. Positive interventions in Anxiety disorders
11. Positive interventions in Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders
12. Positive interventions in Substance Use Disorders
13. Positive Psychotherapy and Eating Disorders
14. Positive interventions in PTSD and post traumatic growth
15. Positive Psychosomatics
16. Positive Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

Part 4: Special Settings and Populations
17. Culture and Minorities: Positive Psychology and Positive Psychiatry Perspectives
18. Positive Psychotherapy in different Cultures
19. Positive Sports Psychiatry
20. Positive Family Counselling and Marital Therapy
21. Positive Pedagogy and Counselling
22. Positive Group Psychotherapy
23. Positive Psychotherapy in organizational and leadership coaching
24. Psychotherapeutic work with men

Part 5: Theoretical Foundations and Training
25. Theoretical Foundations and Roots of Positive Psychotherapy
26. The First Interview in Positive Psychotherapy
27. TThe Conflict Model in Positive Psychotherapy
28. Using stories, anecdotes and humor in Positive Psychotherapy
29. Supervision in Positive Psychotherapy
30. Spirituality and Religion in positive psychiatry and psychology
31. Positive Psychotherapy as an Existentialism
32. Positive Psychotherapy and other psychotherapeutic methods
33. Positive Psychotherapy and Meaning
34. Positive interpretation as a tool in psychotherapy

Erick Messias, MD, MPH, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Hamid Peseschkian, MD, DM, DMSc, IDFAPA 
Director
Wiesbaden Academy of Psychotherapy
President
World Association for Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy

Consuelo Cagande, MD, DFAPA, DFAACAP
Division Chief, Community Care and Wellness, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia  

Dr. Messias was born and raised in Brazil, where he completed medical school and practiced family medicine in rural areas, before moving to the US in 1997 and becoming an American citizen in 2014.

Dr. Messias completed his residency training in psychiatry at the University of Maryland in 2001, and in preventive medicine at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2003. While at Hopkins, he also received a master’s in public health and a PhD in psychiatric epidemiology. Since then, Dr. Messias has been practicing psychiatry in private practice and academic institutions in both Georgia and Arkansas. From 2010 to 2015, he was the medical director of the Walker Family Clinic and the House Staff Mental Health Service at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, where he is currently the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs. He has also published several papers in scientific journals on risk factors for depression and suicide, as well as schizophrenia and psychiatric epidemiology. 

Dr. Peseschkian is Academic and Managing Director of the Wiesbaden Academy of Psychotherapy (WIAP), Head of its psychotherapy residency program, and Medical Director of the Wiesbaden Psychotherapy Center in Wiesbaden, Germany. He is the President of the World Association for Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy (WAPP), and Board member of the German Association for Psychodynamic Psychoth

The first book to bring together the innovations gained from positive psychology, psychotherapy, and psychiatry

Takes a reader-friendly approach for accessibility

Written by global experts in positive mental health