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Article: From psychoanalysis to neurobiology. (treatments for mental illness) (Mental Illness and National Policy)
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- National Forum
- Article date:
- January 1, 1993
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The title of our essay, "From Psychoanalysis to Neurobiology," implying as it does a direction of travel or linear relatedness between two approaches to mental illness, embodies what we believe to be an error in conceptualization that we will employ as the starting point for our discussion of the current uneasy state of our psychiatric profession. We wish to underscore certain essential incompatibilities or at least oversimplifications even as we embrace the naive but critically valuable ecumenical spirit of the biopsychosocial approach to psychiatric patients. We will move our discourse to clinical and educational areas to illustrate the problems and potentials of modern ...