Psychology and mind-body segregation: Are we part of the problem?

Journal/Book: J Clin Psychol Med Settings. 1996; 3: 233 Spring St, New York, NY 10013. Plenum Publ Corp. 141-144.

Abstract: Despite advances in behavioral medicine and health psychology, the health care system and medical education continue to show resistance to a truly biopsychosocial model of medical practice. Psychologists in medical settings have generally been identified as challenging the concept of mind-body duality and the segregation of biologic and psychosocial sciences in medicine. However, examples are presented of how psychologists contribute to and perpetuate mind-body segregation via exclusive theoretical conceptualizations, arbitrary definitions of professional behavior, and dogmatic constraints on the limits of psychology's field of knowledge.

Note: Article JE Carr, Psychiat Outpatient Ctr, 4225 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105 USA

Keyword(s): mind-body; biopsychosocial model; health psychology; MEDICAL-EDUCATION; CHALLENGE

Zurück | Weiter