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Who cares?
- Author:
- PILGRIM David
- Journal article citation:
- Open Mind, 98, July 1999, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- MIND
The author advocates abandoning the label 'carer' and gives his reasons why.
The biopsychosocial model in Anglo-American psychiatry: Past, present and future?
- Author:
- PILGRIM David
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 11(6), December 2002, pp.585-594.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
The biopsychosocial model in Anglo-American psychiatry is appraised. Its content and history are described and its scientific and ethical strengths noted. approaches in the profession, especially an older but enduring biomedical model. The tensions provoked by the latter, in relation to 'anti-psychiatry', the users' movement and 'critical psychiatry' are explored, as a context in which the biopsychosocial model has both emerged and been constrained.