Psychiatria Danubina, Vol. 25 No. 3, 2013.
Conference paper
HOW TO INCREASE TREATMENT EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY IN PSYCHIATRY: CREATIVE PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY Part 2: Creating Favorable Treatment Context and Fostering Patients' Creativity
Miro Jakovljević
; University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Department of Psychiatry, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Any medical or psychosocial treatment has two components, one associated with the specific effects of the treatment itself, and
the other related to the treatment context, individual perception, imagination, subjective meaning and psychobiological response.
Psychopharmacotherapy is a context dependent practice because different contexts affect the meaning of biological variables in
different ways. Creation of favorable treatment context as well as creative collaboration with patients and their families may
significantly improve treatment outcome. Positive therapeutic context is fundamental for treatment success in psychiatry because it
may significantly increase placebo and decrease nocebo responses. Creative approach to psychopharmacotherapy reflects a creative
synergism between clinical pharmacology and positive psychology of creativity in the frame of transdisciplinary holistic, integrative
and person-centered psychiatry.
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161204
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Publication date:
17.9.2013.
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