1. The Limitations of the Medical Model -- 2. "What This Patient Needs Is a Doctor" -- 3. The Concept of Disease -- 4. Personal Illness: The Functional Disorders -- 5. Personal Illness: The Concept of Care Determines the Outcome -- 6. Diagnostic Strategies for Unrecognized Personal Illness -- 7. Health Practices, Psychosocial Distress, and Organic Disease -- 8. Psychiatric Disorders: The Medical Model in Perspective -- 9. Psychiatric Disorders: Is Feeling Depressed a Disease? -- 10. Barriers to Person-Centered Care -- 11. Cognitive/Emotional Dissociation: A Common Cause of Illness -- 12. Emotionally Induced Physical Symptoms -- 13. Functional Syndromes: Differential Diagnosis -- 14. Collaboration Begins: The Medical History -- 15. Misunderstandings and Hidden Issues -- 16. Collaboration Continues: First Talks About Personal Illness -- 17. The Core of the Collaboration: The Personal Interview -- 18. Engaging the Patient
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