title: The Rise and Fall of the Biopsychosocial Model: Reconciling Art and Science in Psychiatry
author: S. Nassir Ghaemi MD MPH
description: <P>"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."</P> (Anders Jrgensen <i>Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica</i>)<br /><br /><P>"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."</P> (<i>Choice</i>)<br /><br /><P>"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."</P> (Hamid R. Tavakoli, MD <i>Psychiatric Times</i>)<br /><br /><P>"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."</P> (Nicholas Kontos, M.D. <i>Journal of Clinical Psychiatry</i>)<br /><br /><P>"A provocative and valuable piece of scholarship."</P> (Gerald N. Grob <i>Bulletin of the History of Medicine</i>)<br /><br /><P>"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."</P> (Kenneth S. Kendler, M.D. <i>American Journal of Psychiatry</i>)<br /><br /><P>"It may become an influential, revolutionary book... Stimulating and thought provoking."</P> (Victor A. Colotla <i>PsycCRITIQUES</i>)<br /><br /><P>"A psychiatrist criticizes the idea of psychiatric disease as a product of biological and social factors."</P> (<i>Science News</i>)
zlib_text: Derek Bolton and Grant Gillett
  
  The Biopsychosocial Model of Health and Disease New Philosophical and
  Scientific Developments
  
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  Derek Bolton
  
  Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Division of Psychology &
  Systems Sciences, King’s College London, London, UK
  
  Grant Gillett
  
  Bioethics Centre, Division of Health Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin,
  New Zealand
  
  ISBN 978-3-030-11898-3 e-ISBN 978-3-030-11899-0
  
  <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11899-0>
  
  Library of Congress Control Number: 2019930712
  
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  Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
  
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