Dementia: is the biopsychosocial model vindicated?

The biopsychosocial model and hypothyroidism

This paper comments on the role and emergence of the biopsychosocial model in modern medical literature and health care settings. The evolution of the biopsychosocial model and its close association with modern pain theory is also examined. This paper seeks to discuss the place of this model with respect to the management of hypothyroidism. This discussion represents a forerunner to a randomise...

Biopsychosocial pain model crippled?

The Biopsychosocial Model: Exploring Six Impossible Things

In our view, the biopsychosocial model is a vision and an approach to practice rather than an empirically verifiable theory, a coherent philosophy, or a clinical method. In some cases, when that vision is confused with ideologic dogmatism, it can invite abandonment of the vision entirely or in selected situations. The authors suggest that habits of mind may be the missing link between a biopsyc...

The biopsychosocial model--a tool for rheumatologists.

Rheumatologists grapple in daily practice with many controversial syndromes including fibromyalgia, late whiplash syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome, Gulf War syndrome, the adverse outcomes of silicon breast implants and so on. For decades, much of the debate surrounding, and the approach to these controversial syndromes has centred on a model creating two camps-organic versus non-organic. Whil...

A Biopsychosocial Model of Schizophrenia

51 English translation © 2002 M.E. Sharpe, Inc., from the Russian text © 2001 V.M. Bekhterev Psychoneurological Research Institute. “Biopsikhosotsial’naia model’ shizofrenii,” Sbornik nauchnykh trudov Sankt-Peterburgskogo nauchnoissledovatel’skogo psikhonevrologicheskogo instituta im. V.M. Bekhtereva, 2001, 137, 230–41. Translated by the author. The author is associated with the V.M. Bekhterev ...