Biopsychosocial model in psychiatry as an optimal paradigm for relevant biomedical research

Abstract

The biopsychosocial model, as well as a number of approaches and paradigms based on it (scientific, clinical, preventive, therapeutic), currently cause a lot of criticism up to the complete denial of its use in psychiatry possibilities. The aim of this paper is to propose a modern interpretation of the biopsychosocial model in psychiatry for the further studies of the mental disorders etiopathogenesis and for the research of new opportunities for their therapy and prevention. Progress in biological medicine and the emergence of new research technologies today open up new opportunities for the actual interpretation of the biopsychosocial model and its application for the modern biopsychosocial paradigm, which can be used both as a research strategy and for the relevant scientifically based methods of therapy and prevention. Thus, it is important to understand that the biopsychosocial model is not a competitor or antithesis of the biomedical model, but allows one to expand the biological boundaries beyond a simple description of the organs and systems functioning.

Keywords

• biopsychosocial model
• mental disorders
• etiopathogenesis
• research strategies