Caring for Patients

Introduction. Part I. The Need for a Person-Centred Perspective: 1. The limitations of the medical model 2. 'What this patient needs is a doctor' 3. The concept of disease 4. Personal illness: the functional disorders 5. Personal illness: the concept of care determines the outcome 6. Diagnostic strategies for unrecognised personal illness 7. Health practices, psychosocial distress, and organic disease 8. Psychiatric disorders: the medical model in perspective 9. Psychiatric disorders: is feeling depressed a disease? 10. Barriers to person-centered care Part II. Emotions and Emotional Symptoms: 11. Cognitive/emotional dissociation: a common cause of illness 12. Emotionally induced physical symptoms 13. Functional syndromes: differential diagnosis Part III. Person-Centred Care: 14. Collaboration begins: the medical history 15. Misunderstandings and hidden issues 16. Collaboration continues: first talks about personal illness 17. The core of the collaboration: the personal interview 18. Engaging the patient.