Our training in psychiatry during the early 1960s was at a time of intense controversy regarding the origins of schizophrenia. Rather comprehensive explanatory theory for psychopathology was postulated at the level of genetics/biology or psychology or social theory. These perspectives competed for dominance more often than seeking integration although the biopsychosocial medical model, espoused by Engel,1 integrated these perspectives in a general systems framework.....Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai