Table of Contents
Part 1: Basic Concepts, Background, and History.- Positive
Psychiatry: An Introduction.- Positive Psychotherapy: An
Introduction.- Positive Psychology: An Introduction.- Part 2:
Staying Positive Through Life.- Positive Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry.- Positive Psychiatry in Midlife.- Professional
well-being.- Successful Aging.- Life Balance with Positive
Psychotherapy.- Part 3: Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Disorders.-
Positive interventions in Depression.- Positive interventions in
Anxiety disorders.- Positive interventions in Schizophrenia and
Psychotic Disorders.- Positive interventions in Substance Use
Disorders.- Positive Psychotherapy and Eating Disorders.- Positive
interventions in PTSD and post traumatic growth.- Positive
Psychosomatics.- Positive Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy.- Part
4: Special Settings and Populations.- Culture and Minorities:
Positive Psychology and Positive Psychiatry Perspectives.- Positive
Psychotherapy in different Cultures.- Positive Sports Psychiatry.-
Positive Family Counselling and Marital Therapy.- Positive Pedagogy
and Counselling.- Positive Group Psychotherapy.- Positive
Psychotherapy in organizational and leadership coaching.-
Psychotherapeutic work with men.- Part 5: Theoretical Foundations
and Training.- Theoretical Foundations and Roots of Positive
Psychotherapy.- The First Interview in Positive Psychotherapy.- The
Conflict Model in Positive Psychotherapy.- Using stories, anecdotes
and humor in Positive Psychotherapy.- Supervision in Positive
Psychotherapy.- Spirituality and Religion in positive psychiatry
and psychology.- Positive Psychotherapy as an Existentialism.-
Positive Psychotherapy and other psychotherapeutic methods.-
Positive Psychotherapy and Meaning.- Positive interpretation as a
tool in psychotherapy.
About the Author
Erick Messias, MD, MPH, PhDProfessor of Psychiatry
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Hamid Peseschkian, MD, DM, DMSc, IDFAPA
Director
Wiesbaden Academy of Psychotherapy
President
World Association for Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy
Consuelo Cagande, MD, DFAPA, DFAACAP
Division Chief, Community Care and Wellness, Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia
Dr. Messias was born and raised in Brazil, where he completed
medical school and practiced family medicine in rural areas, before
moving to the US in 1997 and becoming an American citizen in
2014.
Dr. Messias completed his residency training in psychiatry at the
University of Maryland in 2001, and in preventive medicine at the
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2003. While at
Hopkins, he also received a master’s in public healthand a PhD in
psychiatric epidemiology. Since then, Dr. Messias has been
practicing psychiatry in private practice and academic institutions
in both Georgia and Arkansas. From 2010 to 2015, he was the medical
director of the Walker Family Clinic and the House Staff Mental
Health Service at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
in Little Rock, where he is currently the Associate Dean for
Faculty Affairs. He has also published several papers in scientific
journals on risk factors for depression and suicide, as well as
schizophrenia and psychiatric epidemiology.
Dr. Peseschkian is Academic and Managing Director of the Wiesbaden
Academy of Psychotherapy (WIAP), Head of its psychotherapy
residency program, and Medical Director of the Wiesbaden
Psychotherapy Center in Wiesbaden, Germany. He is the President of
the World Association for Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy
(WAPP), and Board member of the German Association for
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (DFT/GAPP).
Dr. Peseschkian is triple German Board-certified and licensed
specialist in psychiatry, neurology and psychotherapy, an
International Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric
Association (APA), and an International Associate of the Royal
College of Psychiatrists (UK). He is a Senior Adjunct Faculty
member for residency trainings in psychiatry and psychotherapy of
the State Medical Chamber in Hesse (Germany). Dr.
Peseschkian received his professional degree as a Medical Doctor
(M.D.) from the Medical Faculty of the University of Mainz
(Germany) in 1987, a research doctorate degree in medicine (Dr.
med., Doctor of Medicine) from the University of Mainz in 1988, and
a postdoctoral academic research degree (Dr. med. habil., Doctor of
Medical Sciences) from the Federal Bekhterev Psychoneurological
Scientific Research Institute, St. Petersburg (Russia) in
1999.
Dr Cagande is anAssociate Professor of Psychiatry, Cooper Medical
School of Rowan UNIVERSITY (CMSRU). She is a General and Child and
Adolescent Psychiatrist. She was Residency Program Director
and Clerkship Director at CMSRU. Dr Cagande received her medical
doctor degree from Cebu Institute of Medicine, Philippines. She did
her Psychiatry residency at Robert Wood Johnson Medical
School/Cooper University Hospital and Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry Fellowship at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland. She is
a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association
(APA) and American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
(AACAP). She has published and presented nationally and
internationally in areas of hidden curriculum, faculty development,
physician wellness, childhood anxiety and psychosis, youth suicide
and cultural psychiatry.