title: Beyond eclecticism.
abstract: Biopsychosocial eclecticism is incomplete because it does not address the important issues of differential causation and treatment staging. Psychiatric serialism goes beyond eclecticism to consider biological, psychosocial, and existential-moral parameters as equipotential and hierarchical. What this means in practice is that, after forming a treatment alliance, the therapist must always assess the evidence for a biological substrate of disorder and, where feasible, administer the appropriate biological treatments. On a stable biological platform, psychosocial interventions can then be utilized to promote the goals of lieben and arbeiten, and an existential therapy relationship can be forged to promote personal integrity.
mesh_terms: D005086:Existentialism; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009014:Morals; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D013598:Systems Theory; D013812:Therapeutics