Luigi  Grassi, M.D.,M.A.,  is Professor and Chair of Psychiatry, Director of the University Hospital Psychiatry Unit and Dean of the Department of BioMedical and Specialty Surgical Sciences at the University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.  Dr. Grassi's clinical and research interests are in the area of  consultation-liaison psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine, psycho-oncology, and psychosocial rehabilitation in psychiatry. He has been the President of the International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS) (2006-2008) and Chair  of the Federation of Psycho-Oncology Societies (2008-2016). He  is currently Chair of the World Psychiatric Association-WPA Section on Psycho-Oncology & Palliative Care, and co-Chair of the  WPA Section on Psychiatry, Medicine  and Primary Care, President of  the  Italian Society of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, and of the Italian Association of Cognitve-Analytic Therapy. Dr. Grassi is in the board of several international journals and  author of about 150  scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals, chapter of books and books related to psycho-oncology and psychiatric aspects of medical illness. He co-authored the book  Delirium- Acute confusional states in palliative medicine (Oxford University Press, 2011, 2nd edition) and co-edited with Michelle Riba the books Clinical Psycho-Oncology: An International perspective (Wiley, 2012) and Psycho-pharmacology in oncology and palliative care (Springer, 2014). 

Michelle B. Riba, M.D., MS, DFAPA, FAPM, is clinical professor and Associate Director of the University of Michigan Comprehensive Depression Center, and Director of the PsychOncology Program at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Riba is Past President of the American Psychiatric Association and Past Secretary, World Psychiatric Association Scientific Publications. Dr. Riba's clinical and research interests include primary care psychiatry, depression and cardiovascular disease, psychoncology, and the role of screening for distress in patients with medical illness. She has served on the editorial board of Psychiatric Services and Cancer News on the Net, Current Psychiatry, section editor of Current Psychiatry Reports, Deputy Editor of Psychiatric Times, and has served on the editorial advisory board of the American Psychiatric Press, Inc. She is a reviewer for Psycho-Oncology; Academic Psychiatry; Psychiatric Services; Journal of Psychiatric Practice; and Psychosomatic Medicine; Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. She has co-edited 15 editions of The American Psychiatric Press Review of Psychiatry series. She has co-edited Psychopharmacology and Psychotherapy: A Collaborative Approach; Primary Care Psychiatry; and The Doctor-Patient Relationship in Pharmacotherapy: Improving Treatment Effectiveness and has edited or co-written another 30 books.

1. The Role of Patient-centered and Recovery-oriented Models in Medicine: An Introduction.- Section 1: Clinical concepts and methods in psychosomatic medicine.- 2. Psychosomatic and biopsychosocial medicine: body-mind relationship, its roots and current challenges.- 3. Psychosomatic and Person-centered Medicine.- 4. Screening for psychosocial distress and psychiatric disorders in medicine: from concepts to evidence.- 5. Clinimetric assessment in psychosomatic medicine.- Section 2: The clinical contexts of psychosomatic medicine.- 6. Dignity Conserving Care  in  Medicine.- 7. Cross-cultural issues.- 8. Prevention in Psychosomatic c Medical Care and Rehabilitation.- 9. Communication and Relational Skills in Medicine.- 10. Somatic Health Issues in Trauma-related disorders: Effects on Psychobiological Axes Affecting Mental and Physical Health.- 11. Implementing Psychiatric Rehabilitation in the Mental Health System Services: From Theory to Practice.- 12. Rehabilitation-Oriented Treatment and Care in Psychosomatic Medicine Under a Lifespan Perspective.- 13. A Psychosomatic Approach of Anorexia Nervosa.- Section 3: Integrated intervention.- 14. The role of integrated interventions in psychosomatic diseases.- 15. Ethical Counselling for a Patient-Centred Approach in the Context of Psychosomatic Medicine.- 16. Organization of Psychosomatic Service in Health Systems - the German Perspective.- 17 Training in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine.

This book offers a resource to aid in implementing psychosocial screening, assessment, and consequently integrating prevention, care and treatment (i.e. pharmacological, psychosocial rehabilitation and psychotherapeutic) in medicine.  It is becoming increasingly recognized that one method of combating spiraling health care costs in developed nations is to integrate psychiatric care into medicine  including primary care settings.  This volume reviews the main issues relative  to the paradigm of a person-centered and recovery-oriented approach that should  imbue all medical areas and specialties. It  proposes integration methods in screening and assessment, clinimetric approach,  dignity conserving care, cross-cultural and ethical aspects, treatment and training  as a basic and mandatory  need of a whole  psychosomatic approach bridging the several specialties in medicine.  As such, the book addresses a topic that all physicians,including primary care and psychiatric professionals in a wide variety of mental health settings are currently discussing, planning and preoccupied with, namely the task of integrating mental health into all the medical fields, including  primary care, cardiology, psychiatry, oncology and so on.