Summary

When the public uses its clout to insist on use of the medical model, adding its considerable strength to existing imperatives for a new direction in psychiatry, then conservative medicine-practices at the expense of opportunities provided by modern medicine-will no longer be tolerated.

In Brain Basics, the following principles of behavior are discussed:

• What is behavior?
• What are the kinds of behavior?
• What is psychosis?
• Are psychosocial determinates the main determinates of behavior?
• What are common illnesses one would expect to see?
• How is a diagnosis made?
• Can an individual see his/her own illness?
• Can science be applied to psychiatry?
• What is a systematic way of making a psychiatric diagnosis with an open model?