Biopsychosocial model

Biopsychosocial model
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"The model was theorized by psychiatrist George L. Engel at the University of Rochester, and putatively discussed in a 1977 article in Science,[2] where he posited "the need for a new medical model." He discusses his model in detail in his paper in the American Journal of Psychiatry [Engel GL The clinical application of the biopsychosocial model, American Journal of Psychiatry 1980;137:535-544] where he discusses the fate of a hypothetical patient, a 55 year old Mr Glover who has a second heart attack six months after his first. Engel elegantly indicates that Mr Glover's personality helps to interpret his chest pain, that he is in some degree of denial and that it is only the intervention of his employer that gives him permission to seek help. Whereas reductionistically his heart attack can be understood as a clot in a coronary artery, the wider personal perspective helps to understand that different outcomes may be possible depending on how the person responds to his condition. Subsequently Mr Glover in the emergency room develops a cardiac arrest as a result of an incompetent arterial puncture."