Am J Psychiatry 1989; 146:1492-1494
Copyright © 1989 by American Psychiatric Association
The challenge of relational diagnoses: applying the biopsychosocial model in DSM-IV. Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Committee on the Family
The meaningful application of the biopsychosocial model in psychiatry
requires explicit attention to the relational or interpersonal level of
functioning. Family-oriented researchers and clinicians recommend that,
despite pressures for early publication of DSM-IV, the time has come to
give a definitive place to relational syndromes in psychiatric nosology.