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Nov 1, 2005 · George Engel’s basic convictions are best known from his “biopsychosocial model,” a general theory of illness and healing (1–3). When these ideas were forming in the early 1950s, he had already made a name for himself in neurology and medicine through his studies of fainting, delirium, and ulcerative colitis and was beginning the ...
Psychoanalysis and Dr. Engel’s studies with Theresa Benedek played a part in his broadened syncretic view, providing a concept of symbolic use of the body for the expression of fantasy, conflict, or affect.
Jul 21, 2017 · The biopsychosocial model outlined in Engel’s classic Science paper four decades ago emerged from dissatisfaction with the biomedical model of illness, which remains the dominant healthcare model. ...
- Derick T Wade, Peter W Halligan
- 2017
George Engel’s biopsychosocial vision was simultaneously scientific and humanistic. He passionately presented an approach to clinical care to correct the progressive distancing of clinical care and research from the lived experience of the patient.
In the work of the physician, Dr Engel proposed disciplined study of those bonds to enrich personal connections, to promote understanding of patient and illness and to sustain the physician through emotionally and intellectually meaningful work.
Apr 30, 2002 · George Engel proposed the biopsychosocial model in what soon became a landmark event for understanding medicine as a science. 1,2, * The model prompted a revolution in medical thinking by providing an argument and rationale that better linked medicine to science.
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George Libman Engel (December 10, 1913 – November 26, 1999) was an American psychiatrist and internist who, along with his colleague John Romano, was instrumental in developing and teaching psychosomatic medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York.
