Positive Psychiatry: What Is It and Why We Need It
By Erick Messias, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.
Traditional psychiatry aims to restore people to their usual function. Positive Psychiatry hopes to help people move to a higher level of functioning.
Psychiatry is one of the oldest specialties of medicine. For millennia we’ve tried to understand and modify abnormal behavior and care for those with mental…