Hence, in the end, every perspective both reveals and conceals aspects of the patient’s condition. In order to gain a fuller understanding, the psychiatrist must draw on other perspectives, also one-sided and limited. His work emphasizes that any single theory used to understand and treat the person will only permit a one-sided and limited perspective on that patient’s situation - pointing the psychiatrist toward some facts about the patient but at the same time blinding the psychiatrist to others. Schwartz's work, anchored in phenomenology, has focused on advancing pluralistic, person and people-centered approaches to psychiatric assessment, care and treatment. Since 2013, Schwartz has served on the executive council of the Karl Jaspers Society of North America, and since 2019 on the National Advisory Council of the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health. He served as president of AAPP from 1991-1994 and was on the executive council of AAPP from 1989-2013. In 1991, Schwartz served as founding president of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry (AAPP). He is presently an adjunct professor at the Texas A&M College of Medicine. While at Texas A&M, he has served as regional chair (Round Rock) for the Texas A&M College of Medicine’s Departments of Psychiatry (2012) and of Humanities in Medicine (2012–2017). After leaving University of Hawaii in 2012, Schwartz joined the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine and served, until 2018, as clinical professor of psychiatry and joint professor of humanities in medicine. In 2005, he left Case Western and joined the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa as clinical professor of psychiatry. Schwartz became clinical professor of psychiatry at Case Western in 2000. While teaching at Case Western, he also served as professor and vice chair of education in psychiatry from 1992 to 1996 and as professor of psychiatry from 1996-2000. In 1979, he joined the New York Medical College as an associate professor of clinical psychiatry and taught there until 1992 when he left to join Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Simultaneously, he started working as an inpatient unit chief at the New York Hospital - Westchester Division. In 1974, Schwartz joined the Cornell University Medical College as an assistant professor of psychiatry. From 1972 to 1974, he also worked as a clinical associate at the Laboratory of Neuropsychiatry at the National Institute of Mental Health. Subsequently, he joined Cornell University’s hospital as an intern and continued working there until 1974. He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Schwartz is one of the founding editors-in-chief of Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities in Medicine, Associate Editor of Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, and a member of the Comité de Lecture of PSN (Psychiatrie, Sciences humaines, Neurosciences). His work focuses on advancing pluralistic, person and people-centered approaches to psychiatric assessment, care and treatment. He continues practicing psychiatry as well as writing and editing psychiatric books and articles. In 2018 Schwartz retired as clinical professor of psychiatry and joint professor of humanities in medicine at the Texas A&M School of Medicine. Michael Alan Schwartz is an American academic and psychiatrist based in Weston, Connecticut.
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