Bruno Trumbic proposes two texts to discuss the"biopsychosocial model" and the critique of biomedical reductionism by Georges Libman Engel (1913-1999).
G.L. Engel is recognized as one of the creators of modern psychosomatic medicine and the biopsychosocial model. As a general practitioner and psychoanalyst, he directed, as early as 1945, the medical-psychiatric liaison program, intended to promote the psychosocial aspects of illness and care among non-psychiatric specialists...