Psychiatric Times April 22, 2024
The articles in this Psychiatric Times Special Report highlight the relationship of health to the environment.
SPECIAL REPORT: PSYCHIATRY & THE ENVIRONMENT
“True transcendence always includes the previous stages, yet somehow also reshapes and expands them.”
—Richard Rohr, Franciscan friar
Since its introduction in the early 1970s, psychiatrists have relied on Engel’s biopsychosocial model to understand the influences of nature and nurture, the biological predispositions, the psychological organization, and the relationships that have shaped whom a patient has become. Like the proverbial fish in the water, we have taken for granted the health of the medium in which they and we swim: the sun, atmosphere, air, food, water, oceans, warmth, and energetic reactions that support our thriving.
Outside psychiatry, however,...
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