Systemische Psychiatrie

Ruf's textbook provides doctors, psychologists, social educators, and social workers with an overview of psychosocial patterns in all major disorders and the corresponding therapeutic intervention options. It invites new perspectives and assessments of mental illnesses and encourages experimentation with new ways of thinking and acting. The systemic psychiatry developed in recent years understands the emergence of psychological symptoms as an attempt by those affected to solve problematic situations in their environment. This new interpretation of mental illnesses allows for innovative approaches in therapy. The therapeutic focus is much more on the existing resources of patients and their families than on the psychological symptoms. Ruf describes the connections between biological factors.