Category :
E-Books
Author : Stephen J. Wood, Nicholas B. Allen, Christos Pantelis
Publisher : CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Year : 2009
Page : 469
Language :
English
File Type : Pdf
Size : 3,627 KB
Review : It is just over 30 years since the publication of the influential article by psychiatrist George Engel (Engel, G. (1977). The need for a new medical model: a challenge for biomedicine. Science, 196, 129–136). The paper was a significant attempt to bridge the gap between psychiatrists and other medical colleagues to enable “psychiatry to become better integrated with medical practice.” The result was what has become known as the
“biopsychosocial model,” almost universally accepted as a way to treat human individuals simultaneously as biological organisms, as psychological beings with subjective feelings and also as members of diverse social groups. Despite this serious attempt to find a unitary home for the previously disassembled humans, the model paradoxically retained an even sharper separation between the biology, the psychology and the social issues of “mental” diseases.
The idea that humans exist in two separate worlds, the “physical” and the “mental” still hovers over much of modern medicine and popular philosophy. The spectre of the proverbial Cartesian dualism of a res extensa, the world of matter, and the res cogitans, the world of the mind, still lives on.
“biopsychosocial model,” almost universally accepted as a way to treat human individuals simultaneously as biological organisms, as psychological beings with subjective feelings and also as members of diverse social groups. Despite this serious attempt to find a unitary home for the previously disassembled humans, the model paradoxically retained an even sharper separation between the biology, the psychology and the social issues of “mental” diseases.
The idea that humans exist in two separate worlds, the “physical” and the “mental” still hovers over much of modern medicine and popular philosophy. The spectre of the proverbial Cartesian dualism of a res extensa, the world of matter, and the res cogitans, the world of the mind, still lives on.
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