Person-centred primary care: searching for the self

Primary care, grounded in the provision of continuous comprehensive person-centred care, is of paramount importance in the delivery of accessible and effective health care around the world.

The central notion of person-centred care, however, relies on often-unexamined concepts of self, or understandings of what it means to be a person and an agent.

This cutting-edge book explores contemporary pressures on the sense of self for both patients and health professionals within a consultation and argues that building new concepts of the self is essential if we are to reinvigorate the central tenets of person-centred primary care.