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Author:   S. Nassir Ghaemi, MD MPH (Professor and Director, Mood Disorders Program, Tufts Medical Center)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781421407753

ISBN 10:   1421407752
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   26 November 2012
Recommended Age:   From 17
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Preface Acknowledgments Part I: The Rise of the Biopsychosocial Model 1. The Perils of Open-mindedness: Adolf Meyer's Psychobiology 2. So Many Theories, So Little Time: The Rise of Eclecticism 3. Riding Madly in All Directions: Roy Grinker's ""Struggle for Eclecticism"" 4. A New Model of Medicine: George Engel's Biopsychosocial Model 5. Before and After: Precursors and Followers of the Biopsychosocial Model 6. Cease-fire: Ending the Psychiatric Civil War Part II: The Fall of the Biopsychosocial Model 7. Drowning in Data 8. Teaching Eclecticism 9. Psychopharmacology Awry 10. The Vagaries of the Real World Part III: What Next? 11. The Limits of Evidence-Based Medicine 12. Osler's Ghost 13. The Two Cultures 14. Between Science and the Humanities 15. The Meaning of Meaning: Verstehen Explained 16. The Beginning of a Solution: Method-Based Psychiatry 17. A New Psychiatric Humanism Afterword: Pre-empting the Straw Man Appendix: How Can We Teach It? A Proposal for Education of Psychiatrists Notes A Brief Glossary of Concepts References Index"

Reviews

Ghaemi's book is highly relevant. It is also very well written and appears meticulously researched, and it should be of interest to everyone with a professional relation to psychiatry. Hereby recommended. -- Anders Jorgensen Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 2010 Provocative... Ghaemi claims that one should leave muddled views behind and recognize that humanism in medicine is compatible with the bio-physiological model. The author offers William Osler's humanism and Karl Jasper's method-based existentialist psychiatry as exemplars. Essential. Choice 2010 This is a thoughtful and well-researched book. At minimum, it is an essential read for academic psychiatrists and residents involved in teaching and learning. More broadly, it is a good read for anyone interested in the historical and philosophical aspects of psychiatric theories. -- Hamid R. Tavakoli, MD Psychiatric Times 2010 Impassioned and thoughtful... Ghaemi has produced both a penetrating analysis of the ascent of the biopsychosocial model as a psychiatric theory-of-everything and a weapon designed to bring about its decline. -- Nicholas Kontos, M.D. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 2011 A provocative and valuable piece of scholarship. -- Gerald N. Grob Bulletin of the History of Medicine 2010 This book is especially suited for those who want to ponder the direction of our field and who worry about the theoretical disorientation of modern psychiatry and our resulting need for deep organizing principles. Ghaemi's grasp is wide. His book will be as much disturbing as satisfying but will provide the reader a sense of where our field has been and where it may need to go. -- Kenneth S. Kendler, M.D. American Journal of Psychiatry 2010 It may become an influential, revolutionary book... Stimulating and thought provoking. -- Victor A. Colotla PsycCRITIQUES

Author Information

S. Nassir Ghaemi, M.D., M.P.H., is a professor of psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine and director of the Mood Disorders Program at the Tufts Medical Center in Boston. He also serves on the faculty of Harvard Medical School. He has written several books including Mood Disorders: A Practical Guide; A Clinician's Guide to Statistics and Epidemiology in Mental Health: Measuring Truth and Uncertainty; A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links between Leadership and Mental Illness; and The Concepts of Psychiatry: A Pluralistic Approach to the Mind and Mental Illness, the last also published by Johns Hopkins.

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