The Neurobiology-Psychotherapy-Pharmacology Intervention Triangle: The need for common sense in 21st century mental health

by JoÃÂÂo G Pereira (Editor), Jorge GonÃÂÂalves (Editor), Valeria Bizzari (Editor)

Overview

This book intends to open the debate between three main aspects of clinical practice: psychotherapy (including psychological and philosophical influences), neurobiology and pharmacology. These three main themes are clinically applied in what we call the "Intervention Triangle". The book will first focus on epistemologically distinct frameworks and gradually attempt to consider the integration of these three fundamental vertexes of practice. These vertexes are substantially unbalanced in the mental health field, and thus, this book tries to make sense of this phenomenon.

Unique in its interdisciplinary and comprehensive view of mental health problems and approaches, this book offers a new perspective on unidisciplinary integration that previous publications have not considered. As an innovative contribution to its field, this volume will be particularly relevant to practitioners working towards integrative frameworks. It will also be of interest to students, clinicians and researchers, in particular, those working in psychology, medicine, psychiatry, philosophy, social work, and pharmacy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781622737062
Publisher:	Vernon Press
Publication date:	04/12/2019
Series:	Cognitive Science and Psychology
Pages:	372
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.77(d)

About the Author

João G. Pereira is the Clinical Director of Romão de Sousa Foundation (Casa de Alba). He holds a Doctorate in Psychotherapy from Middlesex University, following a number of years in the UK National Health Service developing and researching therapeutic programs. He is a Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society (BPS), a Registered Psychotherapist with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and has been awarded the European Certificate of Psychotherapy by the EAP. He is interested in understanding what goes on in developing and sustaining therapeutic relationships and in the intersection between psychoanalysis, philosophy and neuroscience. João is currently developing Post-Doctoral Research in Philosophical Psychiatry at NOVA University of Lisbon and is a member of international research groups. He teaches regularly in Évora University, Metanoia Institute and other academic institutions. He is the author and editor of a number of mental health publications and is on the organizing and scientific committee of several scientific events.

Jorge de Almeida Gonçalves has been a postdoctoral researcher at IFILNOVA - FCSH (New University of Lisbon) for ten years. He has a Doctorate, a Masters, and a Degree in Philosophy and a further Degree in Psychology. His current research area is the Philosophy of Psychiatry, with a special focus on the "concept of mental illness", "empathy in psychiatry", and "theories of schizophrenia". Jorge has worked as a Clinical Psychologist for twelve years. He is also the author of several papers and editor of three books.

Valeria Bizzari received her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Pisa with a dissertation entitled "Phenomenology and Leib in the Contemporary Debate: an Embodied Proposal". In 2015, she was a visiting PhD Researcher at the Center for Subjectivity Research in Copenhagen. While in 2017 she worked as a guest researcher at the Oxford Empathy Programme and the Clinical University of Heidelberg. Valeria is currently a DAAD postdoctoral fellow at the Clinical University of Heidelberg, where she focuses on the link between philosophy and psychiatry working on embodiment, intersubjectivity and psychopathology.

Table of Contents

Contributors

Foreword

Dr. Daniel J. Siegel

UCLA School of Medicine

Chapter 1 The roots and Seeds of Humanistic Psychiatry

João G. Pereira

Jorge Gonçalves

Valeria Bizzari

Part One: Neurobiology and Pharmacology

Chapter 2 Neuroscientific questions about intrapsychic phenomena and interpersonal processes

Mário David

Chapter 3 Towards recovery-based practices in mental health: reframing long-term effects of neuroleptics and presenting alternatives

Ana Carolina Florence

Silvio Yasui

Claudinei Eduardo Biazoli Junior

Chapter 4 Embracing the placebo effect in the treatment of depression: from neuropsychiatry to psychotherapy

Jaime Grácio

Sílvia Almeida

Albino J. Oliveira-Maia

Chapter 5 Psychiatric rehabilitation: the efforts for conceptualization and meaning construction – a review

Alexandre Gomes

Second Part: The Effectiveness of Reflexive Mental Health Services: Innovation and Research

Chapter 6 Therapeutic communities for the future: surviving modernisation and staying at the radical edge

Rex Haigh

Chapter 7 Open dialogues principles and dialogical meetings for psychosis

Jaakko Seikkula

Birgitta Alakare

Chapter 8 Mentalizing through the early stages of the Psychosis Continuum

Martin Debbané

Elodie Toffel

Chapter 9 A Mentalization-Based and Neuroscience-Informed Model of Severe and Persistent Psychopathology

Tobias Nolte

Chloe Campbell

Peter Fonagy

Third Part: Practitioner Research and Social Dimensions of Mental Health

Chapter 10 Multidimensional study of the infant/juvenile population with severe and profound Intellectual Developmental Disorders

Anabela Janeco

Inês Gomes

João Albuquerque

Liliana Pacheco

Margarida Morais

Natália Andrade

Patrícia Santos

Pedro Amaro

Pedro Valente

Chapter 11 Assessment of Outcomes at Casa de Alba: Learning from the residents' views

Daniel Guerra

João G. Pereira

Célia Sales

Chapter 12 Burnout in teaching: the importance of personal and professional variables

Adelinda A. Candeias

Inês P. Calisto

Liberata Borralho

António Portelada

Chapter 13 Parenting and/or mental health?

Dora Pereira

Chapter 14 Boredom: humanising or dehumanising treatment

Josefa Ros Velasco

Part Four:

Phenomenology, Existentialism and Psychoanalysis

Chapter 15 Dialectic of the first and third person accounts in mental health – therapeutic implications

Victor Amorim Rodrigues

Chapter 16 “From D.I.R. to D.I.R.E.: the role of embodiment in the treatment of self-disorders”

Valeria Bizzari

Chapter 17 Psychoanalysis, social psychology and the therapeutic community

Robert Hinshelwood

Chapter 18 Ipsas aquas urere consuevit. Able to set even the waters aflame: psychiatric praxis, analytic thought, transference love

Giulio Caselli

List of Acronyms

Index

Editorial Reviews

Without pretensions to the theory of everything and to the supreme algorithm, this book presents a sensible rational and a healthy effort to integrate current knowledge and to open the horizons of research in the territory-process of mental health and mental illness, its origin and its destiny, mode of understanding and art-science in response to their impasses and challenges.

By proposing a "Triangle Intervention," the self-regulated and autopoietic dynamic system of the human relationship is conceived and managed by reason of the imbricated sequential development and with frequent and fertile "loops" in the course of biogenic, sociogenic, and idiogenic factors-vectors, giving special emphasis to the latter because they are dependent on the neural networks of representation and generation - memory and imagination, nostalgy and hope, history and creativity - of the subject and agent of action. As if Man was not the first constructor of the Universe of Culture; and the investigator-therapist, his most lucid interlocutor. Because to investigate is to ask questions on reality, the authors of this volume have to emphasize a thinking thought, which asks - not, the already thought of the repeater - and an intellectual humility that meets the critic and seeks the debate; thus correcting error and enabling the construction of truth, always relative and provisional as long as life and work exist.
So this set of texts serves those who want to learn and produce knowledge; not to anyone who wants to accumulate and display knowledge. To paraphrase Rorty, this is the recipe abstracted from its reading: if we cultivate freedom, truth will avenge itself. And finally, do not be afraid to dare.

António Coimbra de Matos
Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst

"The Neurobiology - Psychotherapy - Pharmacology Intervention Triangle" presents what may be called an outline of future psychiatry, based on an ecological view of mental illness, on a democratic approach to treatment, and on a non-reductive view of neurobiology. From interdisciplinary and interrelated perspectives, the authors of the volume describe an ensemble of interventions that are suitable to replace the dominance of biological approaches, without denying the need to integrate pharmacologicial treatment into a person-centered psychiatry. To this purpose, several chapters describe the theoretical foundations of a circular interaction of biological, psychotherapeutic, and social network processes in which the patients are involved. Further chapters present a variety of approaches such as recovery-based practices, open dialogue and other social communicative interventions that may enhance the patients' long-term social and mental well-being. A final part on phenomenology, existentialism and psychoanalysis integrates the traditional humanistic approaches into the outline of a person-centered, truly humane psychiatry. In sum, the volumen presents a multi-faceted, original and engaged collection of contributions which together constitute a major step forward for the whole field.

Prof. Thomas Fuchs
Karl Jaspers-Professor of Philosophy and Psychiatry
Head of the Section Phenomenological Psychopathology
Psychiatric Department, University of Heidelberg

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