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The rise and fall of the biopsychosocial model : reconciling art and science in psychiatry / S. Nassir Ghaemi.

Van Pelt Library RC489.E24 G43 2010
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Ghaemi, S. Nassir.
Contributor:
Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Eclectic psychotherapy.
Biological psychiatry.
Social psychiatry.
Psychiatry--methods.
Mental Disorders--therapy.
Models, Biological.
Models, Psychological.
Psychological Theory.
Medical Subjects:
Psychiatry--methods.
Mental Disorders--therapy.
Models, Biological.
Models, Psychological.
Psychological Theory.
Physical Description:
xii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
Contents:
The perils of open-mindedness : Adolf Meyer's psychobiology
So many theories, so little time : the rise of eclecticism
Riding madly in all directions : Roy Grinker's "struggle for eclecticism"
A new model of medicine : George Engel's biopsychosocial model
Before and after : precursors and followers of the biopsychosocial model
Cease-fire : ending the psychiatric civil war
Drowning in data
Teaching eclecticism
Psychopharmacology awry
The vagaries of the real world
The limits of evidence-based medicine
Osler's ghost
The two cultures
Between science and the humanities
The meaning of meaning : verstehen explained
The beginning of a solution : Method-based psychiatry
A new psychiatric humanism.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
ISBN:
9780801893902
0801893909
OCLC:
314597283
Publisher Number:
99935904229

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