Crisis of natural-scientific and human approaches in psychiatry

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of dualism of medicine as a whole and psychiatry, in particular, given that the psychiatry is a science, which includes both biological and humanitarian components. The issue of the contradictions between the concept of «evidence-based medicine» and the principles, on which humanitarian methods of treatment for mentally ill patients are based, is considered. It is concluded that developing a full-fledged theory of the biopsychosocial approach to the diagnosis and therapy of people with mental disorders is necessary.

Keywords

• biopsychosocial concept of mental disorder etiology and pathogenesis
• holistic diagnostic approach
• humanities
• human sciences
• dualism of medicine
• evidence-based medicine
• vulnerability
• diathesis
• stress
• illness