Friday, January 21, 2011

BOOK RECOMMENDATION: "The Rise and Fall of the Biopsychosocial Model. Reconciling Art & Science in Psychiatry"

1/21/11. S. Nassir Ghaemi 's, M.D., M.P.H. new book is a thoughtful critique of the biopsychosocial model, discussing the historical development of the model,  what went wrong, and where do we go from here.

The opening quote sums up too much of psychiatry's approach to mental health problems,  theoretical concepts and models:

"For each of the great problems of life, there is a solution:  simple, plausible, and wrong."

--- H.L. Mencken

Dr. Ghaemi advocates a method-based psychiatry, outlines the limits of evidence-based medicine, builds bridges between science and the humanities, and makes the case for a new psychiatric humanism.

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