Caring for patients : a critique of the medical model / Allen B. Barbour.

The need for a person-centered perspective
The limitations of the medical model
What this patient needs is a doctor
The concept of disease
Personal illness : The functional disorders
Personal illness : The concept of care determines the outcome
Diagnostic strategies for unrecognized illness
Health practices, psychosocial distress, and organic disease
Psychiatric disorders : The medical model in perspective
Psychiatric disorders : Is feeling depressed a disease?
Barriers to person-centered care
Emotions and emotional symptoms
Emotionally induced physical symptoms
Cognitive/Emotional dissociation : A common cause of illness
Emotionally induced physical symptoms
Functional syndromes : differential diagnosis
Person-centered care
Collaboration begins : The medical history
Misunderstandings and hidden issues
Collaboration continues : First talks about personal illness
The core of the collaberation : The personal interview
Engaging the patient.