Public and Community Psychiatry

Physicians who choose to serve in public-sector mental healthcare settings and physicians-in-training assigned to public-sector mental health clinics may not be fully prepared for the many roles of the public and community psychiatrist. <em>Public and Community Psychiatry</em> is a concise guide for the resident and early-career psychiatrist called upon to serve in the roles of public-sector clinician team member advocate administrator and academician. Each chapter includes a concise description of these various roles and responsibilities and offers engaging examples of the public psychiatrist at work as well as case-based problems typical of those faced by the public psychiatrist. Each chapter also features works of art and literature usually from the public domain in order to incorporate the core strengths of medical humanities into the dialogue of public-sector mental healthcare. This book aims to provide a level of support to psychiatrists that fosters their desire individually and collectively to serve the poor and the marginalized with grit and determination and to broadly consider their potential to improve not only their patients' well-being but also these patients' incorporation into their respective communities.<br>