TY  - JOUR
T1  - THe congestive heart failure model of schizophrenia
AU  - Burch EA, Jr, Burch KT
Y1  - 1979/05/04
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1979.03290440045027
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1923
EP  - 1925
VL  - 241
IS  - 18
N2  - Many primary care physicians wish to address the psychiatric aspects of their medically ill patients but are impatient with the abstract terminology used in psychiatry's past psychoanalytical period. Modern psychiatry is a more integrated field and considers the biological and social as well as the analytical contributors to disease. Using these newer concepts, we present a teaching model in which schizophrenia is viewed as a syndrome and is compared with the well-known medical syndrome of congestive heart failure. This approach facilitates the conceptualization of a complex psychiatric illness and makes it more appealing to primary care physicians by demonstrating common ground between medicine and psychiatry.(JAMA 241:1923-1925, 1979)
SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1979.03290440045027
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1979.03290440045027
ER  -