“In the past few decades, the biopsychosocial model served as a cease-fire between the biological and psychoanalytic extremism that characterized much of the 19th and 20th century history of psychiatry. Despite being broad and fostering an “anything goes” mentality, it fails to produce much guidance as a model… Critics tend toward dogmatism themselves, usually of postmodernist or libertarian varieties. Three alternative approaches include pragmatism, integrationism, and pluralism.”