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. 2022 Jan 30;12(4):387–407. doi: 10.1080/20476965.2022.2029584

Table 2.

Heuristic approaches for biopsychosocial care.

Habits of mind (Epstein & Borrell-Carrió, 2005) Seven pillars (Francesc Borrell-Carrió et al., 2004) Three dicta(Freudenreich et al., 2010)
•Attentiveness
•Peripheral vision
•Curiosity
•Informed flexibility
•Self-awareness
•Active cultivation of trust
•Empathic curiosity
•Self-calibration to reduce bias
•Educating the emotions
•Using informed intuition •Communicating clinical evidence to foster dialogue
•Think neuro-anatomically
•Think existentially •Think “dirty” (i.e., “ … understand that patients and physicians sometimes work toward different goals”.)