Publication details
Medicínský model a psychoterapie
| Title in English | The medical model and psychotherapy |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Psychoterapie |
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| Citation | |
| Web | časopis |
| Field | Psychology |
| Keywords | Psychotherapy; medical model; pathologization; specific effect; technicist concept of treatment; individualization |
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| Description | Psychotherapy, as we understand it today, originally formed in the field of medicine. Gradually, however, it became a distinct discipline, practiced also by psychologists and other professionals. Today, we may question the extent to which the medical model - the ideological framework that shapes physicians’ thinking, action, values, and attitudes - corresponds to the essence of psychotherapy and contemporary empirical knowledge. From the psychotherapy perspective, some characteristics of the medical model can be viewed as problematic. These include: (a) the tendency to concentrate on pathology and its treatment; (b) the assumption of the specific effects of treatment procedures; (c) the technicist concept of treatment; and (d) disregarding the wider psychosocial and socio-cultural context of the problem. The author argues that psychotherapy is a discipline that not only exceeds the medical model but often stands in an active opposition to it. |
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