Psychiatry Reborn: Biopsychosocial psychiatry in modern medicine

• 1. Introduction


• 1: Pierre Loebel and Julian Savulescu: Introduction


• 2: Rebecca Roache: The biopsychosocial model in psychiatry: Engel and beyond


• 2. Multi-level Interactions


• 3: Kenneth Kendler and Chistopher Gyngell: Multi-level Interactions and the Dappled Causal World of Psychiatric Disorders


• 4: Rachel Cooper: When answers are hard to find, change the question: Asking different causal questions can enable progress


• 5: Simone PW Haller and Kathrin Cohen Kadosh: A developmental approach to understanding psychiatric disorders: Mapping etiological pathways


• 6: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Jesse S. Summers: Which biopsychosocial view of psychiatry?


• 7: Neil Levy: The Truth in Social Construction


• 8: Bill Fulford: Minority Report: Values-based Practice and Making it Real


• 9: Graeme C. Smith: Formulation in the face of complexity


• 3. Risk and Resilience


• 10: Essi Viding: Developmental risk and resilience: The challenge of translating multi-level data to concrete interventions


• 11: Eamon J. McCrory: The case for a preventative approach to mental health: Childhood maltreatment, neuroimaging and the theory of latent vulnerability


• 12: Charlotte A.M. Cecil: Biopsychosocial pathways to mental health and disease across the lifespan: The emerging role of epigenetics


• 13: Richard Holton: Reacting to Abuse


• 14: Peter Dayan, Jonathan P Roiser, and Essi Viding: The First Steps on Long Marches: The Costs of Active Observation


• 15: Tim Thornton: Psychiatry's inchoate wish for a paradigm shift and the bio-psycho-social model of mental illness


• 16: Matthew Parrott: Ignoring faces and making friends


• 4. Neurobiology and the Biopsychosocial Model

Professor Julian Savulescu has held the Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford since 2002. He has degrees in medicine, neuroscience and bioethics. He directs the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics within the Faculty of Philosophy, and leads a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator award on Responsibility and Health Care. He directs the Oxford Martin Programme for Collective Responsibility for Infectious Disease at the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford. He co-directs the interdisciplinary Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities.
He is a leader in medical and practical ethics, with more than 400 publications, an h index of 61 and over 14,315 citations in total. He spent 10 years as Editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics, the highest impact journal in the field, and is founding editor of Journal of Practical Ethics, an open access journal in Practical Ethics.


Dr Rebecca Roache was educated at the universities of Leeds and Cambridge, and worked at the University of Oxford before moving to Royal Holloway in 2014. She writes on issues in ethics, language, and psychiatry, and frequently appears in the media. She is currently writing a book on the philosophy of swearing for OUP.

Dr Will Davies is a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Birmingham, specialising in the Philosophy of Psychology and Psychiatry. He completed his BPhil and DPhil at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Jowett Senior Scholar, and then held a Junior Research Fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge before joining the faculty at Birmingham in 2017. Dr Davies has published articles in journals such as Analysis, Philosophical Studies, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, and Philosophy of Science. He is currently PI of a British Academy/Leverhulme grant on Colour and Form in the Disordered Mind.

Professor J. Pierre Loebel was born in Romania, schooled in Palestine and England, studied philosophy and experimental psychology at

This interesting book addresses various topics related to the so-called biopsychosocial (BPS) model of mental health ... fascinating ideas abound throughout. D. C. Marston, CHOICE