Abstract
‘Specifying the best conception of the biopsychosocial model’ builds on the themes developed in this volume by detailing the relationship between the biopsychosocial model and the aetiology, treatment, nosology, and constitution of mental disorders. It argues that, for the foreseeable future, we should expect all mental disorders to be caused by a conjunction of biological, psychological, and social factors. However, they are not necessarily most effectively treated by a conjunction of biological, psychological, and social interventions. The biopsychosocial model offers minimal guidance regarding how mental disorders are constituted or how they should be classified but it does rule out bioreductive approaches to these issues. Finally, the biopsychosocial model integrates biological, psychological, and social sciences with a concern for subjective experience, meaning, and values-based care, so it doesn’t just count against bioreductive approaches to psychiatry but all forms of scientific reductionism.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Psychiatry reborn |
Subtitle of host publication | biopsychosocial psychiatry in modern medicine |
Editors | Julian Savulescu, Rebecca Roache, Will Davies, J. Pierre Loebel |
Place of Publication | Oxford, UK |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Chapter | 23 |
Pages | 381-403 |
Number of pages | 24 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780198789697 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Externally published | Yes |