Reflections on the Challenges of Psychiatry in the UK and Beyond is a personal journey though British psychiatry, the NHS and academic life for over 40 years. It describes personal experience as perceived by a postgraduate student, practicing clinician, teacher, trainer, researcher and health service manager.This book presents a personal historical chronicle and a panoramic view of some of the most significant milestones of modern psychiatry. The process of developing mental health services including those for people with intellectual disabilities through a maze of policies, sometimes contradictory, but also with strong ideological, sociological and political encounters proved to be a foremost challenge. The author examines the complex connections of these processes and he succeeds in giving a comprehensive picture of the mental health map in over four decades. Successes and disappointments are featured throughout Reflections on the Challenges of Psychiatry in the UK and Beyond through memories, archives and personal statements. Reflections on the Challenges of Psychiatry in the UK and Beyond will be of interest to all mental health professionals, all other health practitioners, policy makers, commissioners and managers as well to lay people. This book can be used in courses for psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses, therapists, health and social policy.
Nick Bouras MD, PhD, FRCPsych is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at South London and the Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. He is currently Programme Director of Maudsley International. His research focuses on mental health service related topics including, social and biological determinants of behaviour in people with intellectual disabilities.
Chapter I: Early YearsChapter II: Mental Health Advice Centre Chapter III: Consultant Psychiatrist Chapter IV: Developing the ServiceChapter V: Resettlement ProgrammeChapter VI: Policy ContextChapter VII: Community Mental Handicap TeamChapter VIII: Specialist Psychiatric ServiceChapter IX: Mental Health in Learning Disabilities (MHiLD)Chapter X: Estia CentreChapter XI: The University ComponentChapter XII: The International Dimension
Professor G.E. Berrios, Cambridge University: 'Intellectual autobiographies contribute greatly to historical understanding. Good ones are also pleasurable to read. Reflections on the Challenges of Psychiatry in the UK and Beyond captures a period of change in psychiatry. The great and the good are depicted strutting on the metropolitan stage showing the rest of us how things psychiatric should be done. Natural modesty has impeded Professor Nick Bouras from talking about the crucial role he himself played in the changes he describes.'
