{"product_id":"the-rise-and-fall-of-the-biopsychosocial-model-reconciling-art-and-science-in-psychiatry-9781421407753","title":"The Rise and Fall of the Biopsychosocial Model: Reconciling Art and Science in Psychiatry","description":"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 how, where, and why it fails to live up to its promises. He analyzes the works of its founders, George Engel and Roy Grinker Sr., traces its rise in acceptance, and discusses its relation to the thought of William Osler and Karl Jaspers. In assessing the biopsychosocial model, Ghaemi provides a philosophically grounded evaluation of the concept of mental illness and the relation between evidence-based medicine and psychiatry. He argues that psychiatry's conceptual core is eclecticism, which in the face of too much freedom paradoxically leads many of its adherents to enact their own dogmas. Throughout, he makes the case for a new paradigm of medical humanism and method-based psychiatry that is consistent with modern science while incorporating humanistic aspects of the art of medicine. Ghaemi shows how the historical role of the BPS model as a reaction to biomedical reductionism is coming to an end and urges colleagues in the field to embrace other, less-eclectic perspectives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e S. Nassir Ghaemi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/09\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421407753\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eS. Nassir Ghaemi, M.D., M.P.H., \u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eMood Disorders: A Practical Guide\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eA Clinician's Guide to Statistics and Epidemiology in Mental Health: Measuring Truth and Uncertainty\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eA First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links between Leadership and Mental Illness\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Concepts of Psychiatry: A Pluralistic Approach to the Mind and Mental Illness\u003c\/i\u003e, the last also published by Johns Hopkins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44435151552627,"sku":"9781421407753","price":56.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_0bd26063-ae68-4de3-88b6-d3a718498985.jpg?v=1772806822","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-biopsychosocial-model-reconciling-art-and-science-in-psychiatry-9781421407753","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}