Humanising Psychiatry and Mental Health: The Challenge of the Person-centred Approach

'In this book I explore the philosophy, theory and practice of the person-centred approach in the context of both contemporary psychiatry and mental health services provided by the NHS. In so doing, I pay attention both to how the person-centred approach can challenge psychiatry, and to how mental health services and the NHS present challenges and tensions to person-centred practitioners working in them. Such challenges need to be highlighted and understood for there to be any hope of placing the person-centred approach more on the map within psychiatry and mental health settings.' - Rachel Freeth, in the Introduction.