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

by S. Nassir Ghaemi

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2010 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine

This is the first book-length historical critique of psychiatry's mainstream ideology, the biopsychosocial (BPS) model.

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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1421407752

ISBN13:9781421407753

Release Date:October 2012

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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