ABSTRACT
The argument underlying this book starts with the issues of complex and linear causality. I believe that both clinical and research evidence strongly suggests that psychopathology, including major psychiatric syndromes, is the result of complex interactions involving biological, psychological, and sociological variables. If we have learned anything in recent decades it is that describing a syndrome as solely brain disease, psychological conflict, or family dysfunction invariably oversimplifies. Always, multiple factors are involved, and the same syndrome in different individuals often reflects different combinations of etiologic variables.
