title: Patient experience and the psychiatric discourse: Attempting to bridge incommensurable worlds.
abstract: Divergent worldviews, incommensurable frameworks, contrasting models, distinct foci, dissimilar logic, different realities, disparate cultures, and complex patient-physician interaction impact the clinical process and problematize decision-making. Attempting to understand the disease-illness divide, engage patient perspectives, go beyond the traditional biomedical understanding of mental illness and negotiate a shared plan for treatment are serious challenges for psychiatry. The challenge for psychiatrists is to appreciate patient reality and negotiate a shared plan of treatment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
authors.forename: K S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Jacob
keywords: Biomedical model; patient perspective; psychosocial context; symptom checklists
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