Andrew Sims
Biographic Data
| ID | 4490073 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Sims |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Sims |
| SIGNATURE | SIMS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0096-1878 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Spirituality and Psychiatry
Spirituality and Psychiatry addresses the crucial but often overlooked relevance of spirituality to mental well-being and psychiatric care. This updated and expanded second edition explores the nature of spirituality, its relationship to religion, and the reasons for its importance in clinical practice. Contributors discuss the prevention and management of illness, and the maintenance of recovery. Different chapters focus on the subspecialties of…
Spirituality and Psychiatry
Spirituality and secularity: Professional boundaries in psychiatry
Spirituality is assuming increasing importance in clinical practice and in research in psychiatry. This increasing salience of spirituality raises important questions about the boundaries of good professional practice. Answers to these questions require not only careful attention to defining and understanding the nature of spirituality, but also closer attention to the nature of concepts of secularity and self than psychiatry has usually given. F…
‘Psyche’ – Spirit as well as Mind?
Much has been written about the dangers of Cartesian dichotomy for psychiatry, with its equally perilous errors of ‘mindless’ or ‘brainless’ psychiatry (Eisenberg, 1986), as well as the nonsense of talking about disease as either ‘mental’ or ‘physical’, or with ‘somatic’ or ‘psychological’ symptoms. Kendell (1993) has made this point eloquently; this paper further extends the theme. We psychiatrists complain when our medical colleagues cannot get…
The repertory grid as a measure of change and predictor of outcome in the treatment of alcoholism
Fifty male in‐patients receiving treatment for alcohol dependence were studied on admission using the repertory grid and the grids analysed using the principal component technique (INGRIDA). Three self‐elements were examined: self‐when‐sober, self‐when‐drunk, and ideal self. Sober‐ideal self distance was below average in 90 per cent and drunk‐ideal above average in 83 per cent, suggesting unrealistically favourable perceptions of sobriety and unr…
Age, Unemployment and Parasuicide in Leeds
The relationship between unemployment and parasuicide was examined amongst males and females in the City of Leeds between 1978 and 1982. The association between unemployment and parasuicide was found to be positive and significant in middle aged men. However, there was a negative and significant relationship between unemployment and parasuicide in older men aged between 55 and 59 years. For females between the ages of 20 and 25 years there was a …
Prognosis in the neuroses
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Prognosis in the neuroses
Age, Unemployment and Parasuicide in Leeds
The relationship between unemployment and parasuicide was examined amongst males and females in the City of Leeds between 1978 and 1982. The association between unemployment and parasuicide was found to be positive and significant in middle aged men. However, there was a negative and significant relationship between unemployment and parasuicide in older men aged between 55 and 59 years. For females between the ages of 20 and 25 years there was a …
The repertory grid as a measure of change and predictor of outcome in the treatment of alcoholism
Fifty male in‐patients receiving treatment for alcohol dependence were studied on admission using the repertory grid and the grids analysed using the principal component technique (INGRIDA). Three self‐elements were examined: self‐when‐sober, self‐when‐drunk, and ideal self. Sober‐ideal self distance was below average in 90 per cent and drunk‐ideal above average in 83 per cent, suggesting unrealistically favourable perceptions of sobriety and unr…
‘Psyche’ – Spirit as well as Mind?
Much has been written about the dangers of Cartesian dichotomy for psychiatry, with its equally perilous errors of ‘mindless’ or ‘brainless’ psychiatry (Eisenberg, 1986), as well as the nonsense of talking about disease as either ‘mental’ or ‘physical’, or with ‘somatic’ or ‘psychological’ symptoms. Kendell (1993) has made this point eloquently; this paper further extends the theme. We psychiatrists complain when our medical colleagues cannot get…
Spirituality and secularity: Professional boundaries in psychiatry
Spirituality is assuming increasing importance in clinical practice and in research in psychiatry. This increasing salience of spirituality raises important questions about the boundaries of good professional practice. Answers to these questions require not only careful attention to defining and understanding the nature of spirituality, but also closer attention to the nature of concepts of secularity and self than psychiatry has usually given. F…
Spirituality and Psychiatry
Spirituality and Psychiatry addresses the crucial but often overlooked relevance of spirituality to mental well-being and psychiatric care. This updated and expanded second edition explores the nature of spirituality, its relationship to religion, and the reasons for its importance in clinical practice. Contributors discuss the prevention and management of illness, and the maintenance of recovery. Different chapters focus on the subspecialties of…
Spirituality and Psychiatry
Psychology (6 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Psychotherapist (4 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Mental Health (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychiatry and religion (2 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (2 works)