Why Psychiatry Is a Branch of Medicine

by Samuel B. Guze

This groundbreaking new book clarifies the debate about treating mental illness by applying the medical model--the traditional way of thinking about disease--to psychiatric disorders, an approach that ties clinical practice and research to the broader perspective of modern biology. In the author's view, brain function variations are involved in the development of psychopathological syndromes, while at the same time, subjective experiences--cognitive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195074203
• ISBN13: 9780195074208
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.6"