Paradigms of psychiatry: Eclecticism and its discontents

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 619-624

  Ghaemi, Seyyed Nassir ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Biopsychosocial; Eclecticism; Philosophy; Pluralism; Postmodernism

Indexed keywords

CIVILIZATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DRUG INDUSTRY; ECLECTICISM; HUMAN CHARACTERISTIC; IDEOLOGY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MENTAL HEALTH; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; POSTMODERNISM; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 33749501869     PISSN: 09517367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.yco.0000245751.98749.52     Document Type: Review

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