History of Biological Psychiatry in America
GARFIELD TOURNEY M.D.1
1 Professor of psychiatry, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52240
As one of the four fundamental orientations in psychiatry, the biological approach has provided a strong foundation for psychiatric practice, rooted in medical tradition. The author traces its philosophy, methods, and theories from the early 19th-century focus upon gross brain pathology to the contemporary investigations of modern cellular and molecular biology.
