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This brief anecdote opens the door to discussing current approaches to psychiatric problems and depression in particular. The term “bio-psycho-social” was coined by Dr George Engel, an internist and psychiatrist in the s. He based his ideas on the work of Adolph Meyer who talked about “psychobiology” and Franz Alexander, the founder of the Chicago school of psychosomatics. Dr Engel developed his ideas working in the area of psychosomatics and more specifically what is now called Consultation- Liason Psychiatry i.e. psychiatrists working in medical and surgical departments to help other physicians understand the psychological concomitants of physical diseases. Engel’s paradigm concluded that psychological factors interact dynamically with biological and social elements in both health and disease. The model goes further in stating that the cause and effect relationships are not usually linear but rather interactive and reciprocal. This model is proposed as an antidote to two other theoretical approaches common at the time and still today—–that is “dualism” (the mind/body dichotomy ) and “reductionism”—–an ever-present danger in medicine, whether it be biological reductionism common in today’s high-tech environment, or psychological reductionism, common in the Freudian era.
will try to give you new and strange names for what we are doing. Sometimes they will call it ‘Fascism’, sometimes ‘Communism’, sometimes ‘Regimentation’, sometimes ‘Socialism’. But, in so doing, they are trying to make very complex and theoretical something that is really very simple and very practical…. Plausible self-seekers and theoretical die-hards will tell you of the loss of individual liberty. Answer this question out of the facts of your own life. Have you lost any of your rights or liberty or constitutional freedom of action and choice?