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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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