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This open access book is a systematic update of the philosophical and scientific foundations of the biopsychosocial model of health, disease and healthcare. First proposed by George Engel 40 years ago, the Biopsychosocial Model is much cited in healthcare settings worldwide, but has been increasingly criticised for being vague, lacking in content, and in need of reworking in the light of recent developments. The book confronts the rapid changes to psychological science, neuroscience, healthcare, and philosophy that have occurred since the model was first proposed and addresses key issues such as the model's scientific basis, clinical utility, and philosophical coherence. The authors conceptualise biology and the psychosocial as in the same ontological space, interlinked by systems of communication-based regulatory control which constitute a new kind of causation. These are distinguished from physical and chemical laws, most clearly because they can break down, thus providing the basis for difference between health and disease. This work offers an urgent update to the model's scientific and philosophical foundations, providing a new and coherent account of causal interactions between the biological, the psychological and social.
Philosophical ideas about the mind, brain, and behavior can seem
theoretical and unimportant when placed alongside the urgent
questions of mental distress and disorder. However, there is a need
to give direction to attempts to answer these questions. On the one
hand a substantial research effort in going into the investigation
of brain processes and the development of drug treatments for
psychiatric disorders, and on the other, a wide range of
psychotherapies is becoming available to adults and children with
mental health problems. These two strands reflect traditional
distinctions between mind and body, and causal as opposed to
meaningful explanations of behavior. In this book, which has been
written for psychiatrists, psychologists, philosophers, and others
in related fields, the authors propose a radical re-interpretation
of these traditional distinctions. Throughout the discussions
philosophical theories are brought to bear on the particular
questions of the explanation of behaviors, the nature of mental
causation, and eventually the origins of major disorders including
depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, and personality
disorder.
The effects of mental disorder are apparent and pervasive, in
suffering, loss of freedom and life opportunities, negative impacts
on education, work satisfaction and productivity, complications in
law, institutions of healthcare, and more. With a new edition of
the 'bible' of psychiatric diagnosis - the DSM - under
developmental, it is timely to take a step back and re-evalutate
exactly how we diagnose and define mental disorder.
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