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Book SynopsisIthas been expanding ever since, although the ultimate fateofthe universe is still unknown whetherit will keep on expanding resulting in aperpetual stateofheat death, or will at some point startcontracting, resulting in a big crunch ofgravitational collapse ending in a single black hole out ofspace, time, and existence.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Medicine in a Changing Universe at the Threshold of the 21st Century.- 1. Psychiatric Diagnosis in Primary Care: The Biopsychosocial Perspective.- 2. Biopsychosocial Approaches to Anxiety in Primary Care.- 3. Biopsychosocial Approaches to Depression in Primary Care.- 4. Psychiatry in the Primary Care Setting: Managing Chronic Illness: Psychiatric Issues.- 5. Factitious Physical Disorders in the Managed Care Setting.- 6. Chronic Pain.- 7. Biopsychosocial Approaches to Mental Disorders in the Elderly.- 8. Aggressive Nutritional Program for the Institutionalized Alzheimer’s Patient.- 9. The Expanded Biopsychosocial Model in Child Psychiatry.- 10. From Biopsychosocial Model to Patientology.- 11. Teaching Psychiatry to Primary Care Physicians.- 12. Psychosomatic Thinking as Reflected in Practice and Teaching of Primary Health Care — Introducing the Salutogenic Approach.- 13. Reductionism Revisited: Return of the Biomedical Model.- 14. Religion and Spirituality in the Primary Care Setting: Toward the 21st Century.- 15. A Biopsychosocial Critique of Managed Mental Health Care and Its Relation to Primary Care.- Contributors.
