The Virtues in Psychiatric Practice
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The Virtues in Psychiatric Practice explores the role of the virtues, a tenet of positive psychology, in promoting human flourishing within the context of psychiatric practice. Using case examples to consider the incentives of fostering particular virtues, the place of this approach amongst existing approaches, and the relationship between the therapist's and the patient's values, this book develops a clearer understanding of clinical indications for focusing on virtues and enhanced practical ways of promoting human growth.

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The Virtues in Psychiatric Practice explores the role of the virtues, a tenet of positive psychology, in promoting human flourishing within the context of psychiatric practice. Using case examples to consider the incentives of fostering particular virtues, the place of this approach amongst existing approaches, and the relationship between the therapist's and the patient's values, this book develops a clearer understanding of clinical indications for focusing on virtues and enhanced practical ways of promoting human growth.
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John R. Peteet, M.D. has been a psychiatrist for over forty years at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where he is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. After receiving his M.D. degree at Columbia University, Dr. Peteet completed a medical internship at UNC in Chapel Hill, a residency in psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, and a fellowship at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, in Boston. A Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, he has received several teaching awards and published numerous papers in the areas of psychosocial oncology, addiction, and the clinical interface between spirituality/religion and psychiatry. He has authored or co-edited 10 books, including Doing the Right Thing: An Approach to Moral Issues in Mental Health Treatment, Depression and the Soul and The Soul of Medicine: Spiritual Perspectives and Clinical Practice. He is the recipient of the APA's Oskar Pfister Award and is past president of the American Psychiatric Association's Caucus on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry.