“Mental well-being is fundamentally a psychological and social phenomenon, with medical aspects. It is not, fundamentally, a medical phenomenon with additional psychological and social elements. “So of course every thought involves brain-based activity. But this isn’t the same as biomedical reductionism. Our biology provides us with a fantastically elegant learning engine. But we learn as a result of the events that happen to us – it’s because of our development and our learning as human beings that we see the world in the way that we do. “Get the message right — drop the ‘disease model’ and adopt a psychosocial model.” — Peter Kinderman, our kinda guy...
Posted on: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:47:43 +0000
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