A New Way Forward: An Introduction to a New Model for Integrative Psychiatry Practice

Discover a unifying model for holistic psychiatry practice that transcends syndromic diagnostic labels and gets to the root causes of psychiatric illness.In the face of a growing mental health crisis, we need a change. Mental illness is rapidly becoming the leading cause of disability worldwide, but our current treatment approaches have reached a ceiling effect. The compartmentalization of care across the United States led to an oversight of the root causes of illness. Underwhelming consideration of the body, exposome, and spirit has stifled holistic diagnostic and treatment considerations. A culmination of imprecise, impersonal, and suboptimally efficacious treatment remains.In A New Way Forward, Dr. Hatcher critically analyzes the problems among treatment, diagnosis, and formulation in conventional psychiatric practice. He conducts a dialectical synthesis of complexity theory and reductionism that serves as a theoretical underpinning for the Integrative Psychiatry approach. Following this work, Dr. Hatcher presents the Integrative Psychiatry Matrix (IPM) as a holistic model to organize care. This formulation model captures essential aspects of previously existing models while incorporating new elements from the subspecialty of Integrative Psychiatry. The IPM is a map to guide the clinician through the inclusion of pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, psychotherapeutic, lifestyle, and spiritual interventions. Dr. Hatcher presents a new way forward for the field of psychiatry that considers the whole person in developing an effective and personalized plan of care that targets the root causes of illness.Stop sorting through the leaves and get to the root.More information at http://www.DrNicholasHatcher.com/ Read more