George L. Engel, M.D., circa 1969, pioneer of the biopsychosocial model. Source: University of Rochester, used with permission "A good physician treats the disease; a great physician treats the ...
In 1977, George Engel famously argued that medicine in general and psychiatry in particular ought to shift from a biomedical perspective of disease to a biopsychosocial (BPS) perspective on health. He ...
The dominant model of disease today is, as 30 years ago, still biomedical, with molecular biology being the basic scientific discipline. However, there is evidence for the role of stressful life ...