Comprehensive Care for Complex Patients Hardback: The Medical-Psychiatric Coordinating Physician Model - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Steven A. Frankel, MD has practised and taught in the San Francisco Bay Area for over thirty-five years. He is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in general psychiatry as well as child and adolescent psychiatry, and has authored many professional articles and five books. His Collaborative Psychiatry Method of treatment for non-psychiatrists and psychiatrists alike, is elaborated in Evidence from Within: A Paradigm for Clinical Practice (2008), Making Psychotherapy Work: Collaborating Effectively with your Patient (2007), Hidden Faults: Recognizing and Resolving Therapeutic Disjunctions (2000) and Intricate Engagements: The Collaborative Basis of Therapeutic Change (1995, 2004). Comprehensive Care for Complex Patients: The Medical-Psychiatric Coordinating Physician Model, by Frankel, Bourgeois and Erdberg, dramatically expands the scope of his clinical model, placing a physician in the leadership position of treatment teams. A graduate of Yale Medical School, he was a National Institute of Mental Health research fellow in pharmacology at Stanford University Medical School. He then trained in psychiatry at the University of California Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center in San Francisco, where he later joined the academic faculty. Dr Frankel then received psychoanalytic training at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, where he is a member of its faculty. He is an associate clinical professor at the University of California Medical School in San Francisco. He has been designated a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, has attained certification by the American Psychoanalytic Association, and has been voted by his peers to Best Doctors in America® every year since 1987.

James A. Bourgeois, OD, MD is Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He has focused his clinical and academic work on psychosomatic medicine for over 15 years.

Philip Erdberg, PhD is Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, USA. He is Director of Research and Assessment at the San Francisco based Masonic Center for Youth and Families.