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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807168403321

Autore

Ghaemi S. Nassir

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2010

ISBN

1-4214-0292-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Disciplina

616.89/14

Soggetti

Eclectic psychotherapy

Biological psychiatry

Social psychiatry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.