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

"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 medi...

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Main Author:	Ghaemi, S. Nassir
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
Subjects:	Eclectic psychotherapy. Biological psychiatry. Social psychiatry. Psychiatry > methods. Mental Disorders > therapy. Models, Biological. Models, Psychological. Psychological Theory.