The Rise and Fall of the Biopsychosocial Model: Reconciling Art and Science in Psychiatry

The Rise and Fall of the Biopsychosocial Model: Reconciling Art and Science in Psychiatry
ISBN-10
0801893909
ISBN-13
9780801893902
Category
Medical
Pages
268
Language
English
Published
2010
Publisher
JHU Press
Author
S. Nassir Ghaemi

Description

Developed in the twentieth century as an outgrowth of psychosomatic medicine, the biopsychosocial model is seen as an antidote to the constraints of the medical model of psychiatry. Nassir Ghaemi details the origins and evolution of the BPS model and explains how, where, and why it fails to live up to its promises. He analyzes the works of its founders, George Engel and Roy Grinker Sr., traces its rise in acceptance, and discusses its relation to the thought of William Osler and Karl Jaspers.

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