Specifying the best conception of the biopsychosocial model

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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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPsychiatry reborn
Subtitle of host publicationbiopsychosocial psychiatry in modern medicine
EditorsJulian Savulescu, Rebecca Roache, Will Davies, J. Pierre Loebel
Place of PublicationOxford, UK
PublisherOxford University Press
Chapter23
Pages381-403
Number of pages24
ISBN (Electronic)9780198789697
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes

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