PSY 283 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Coronary Artery Disease, Biopsychosocial Model, Mycobacterium
30 Jan 2019
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George engel formulated the biopsychosocial model, which was a holistic alternative to the biomedical model that prevailed at the time. Engel"s model responds to three main strands in medical thinking that he thought were responsible for dehumanizing care: He criticized the dualistic nature of the biomedical model that viewed the body and mind as separate. Engel thought this view encouraged physicians to focus on the illness and not consider the emotions of the person who was suffering. Engel"s research showed that fear, rage, neglect, and attachment had physiologic and developmental effects on the whole organism. Engel criticized the materialistic and reductionistic orientation of medical thinking. According to this way of thinking, anything that could not be explained at the level of molecular processes was ignored or devalued . this neglects the human dimension of suffering, and engel considered that crucial. Engel believed that the observer, as a human, will not be able to observe the subject in an entirely objective way.
