Models for Mental Disorder: Conceptual Models in Psychiatry

by Peter J. Tyrer, Derek Steinberg

Revised and updated, the third edition of this extremely popular textbook incorporates the latest thinking in the field. The authors tackle head on the fact that psychological medicine is not a unified whole but a highly variegated field which relies on very different conceptual models. The models of psychiatric thought are outlined in a clear and accessible fashion, with the liberal use of entertaining cartoons to lighten the subject. In this edition the authors have also included boxes throughout the text which contain practical tips and details of case histories.

158 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

Reviews

[Fatini Zulkifli]

As a non-native English speaker and a person who does not have educational background in the field of psychiatry, I really loved this book even though it was published long, long time ago. The language used was very easy to understand. In writing Chapter 2 of my thesis, I will probably paraphrase some parts of this book. The most important knowledge I learn from this book is mental disorder is treated according to five models: the disease model, psychodynamic model, behavioral model, cognitive model and the social model. The authors described each of the models pretty well. They also made comparison and combined it all suiting with the context of the patients.

[Ian Pitchford]

This book provides very clear and concise material on the main approaches to mental disorder: the disease model, the psychodynamic model, the behavioural model, the cognitive model, and the social model. There is a concluding chapter on how these models are used in clinical practice.