I deliberately used the term "sociopsychobiological" in my
previous post. This was to try and reverse the eclectic understanding of the biopsychosocial model of mental illness. I do agree with the biopsychosocial model of George Engel (eg. see
previous post). But psychiatrists often claim they are biopsychosocial when in fact they are merely supporting a weaker form of the biomedical model (see
extract from my last chapter of
Critical Psychiatry (2006)).
I have to say I have some pretty big reservations about this, regardless of how you put the order. To me, it feels kind of like saying that eating is a stomach-mouth-meat-pleasure-cooking-dinner-social-brain phenomenon.
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