The Seba library treats Biomedical Model in 9 passages, across 4 authors (including Lanius, edited by Ruth A, Strassman, Rick, Damasio, Antonio R.).
the biopsychosocial model and the biomedical model of psychiatry remain at odds rather than taking advantage of the new discoveries to reinforce each other.
This passage argues that the biomedical model’s failure to integrate ACE Study findings on childhood trauma perpetuates a damaging institutional divide with the biopsychosocial model.
, The impact of early life trauma on health and disease the, 2010thesis
we contribute to the problem by authenticating as biomedical disease that which is actually the somatic inscription of life experience on to the human body and brain.
This passage contends that uncritical reliance on the biomedical model misclassifies trauma-derived somatic conditions as organic pathology, thereby forestalling preventive and experiential approaches.
, The impact of early life trauma on health and disease the, 2010thesis
once we began the required mechanism-of-action research, the biomedical model was going to exert greater restrictions upon the types of studies we would be allowed to perform.
Strassman identifies the biomedical model as an institutional gatekeeper that, by privileging mechanistic pharmacology, actively curtailed research into the subjective and phenomenological dimensions of DMT experience.
, DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor’s Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences, 2001thesis
Since this model holds sway in psychiatric research, I learned it thoroughly and presented the DMT studies in those terms.
Strassman describes the pragmatic necessity of adopting biomedical framing to legitimate psychedelic research, revealing the model’s hegemonic position within psychiatric science.
, DMT: The Spirit Molecule, 2001supporting
miscarriage of pregnancy, indicating the complexity of the relationship of early life psychosocial experience to what are usually considered purely biomedical outcomes.
This passage challenges the model’s assumption that reproductive and somatic outcomes are purely biological by demonstrating statistically robust links to adverse childhood psychosocial experience.
, The impact of early life trauma on health and disease the, 2010supporting
attributed their unusual behavior to histories of trauma rather than to underlying biomedical pathology.
The passage traces the historical rupture from biomedical pathology as explanatory framework, crediting Freud’s reading of Charcot’s patients as the founding departure toward trauma-based understanding.
, The impact of early life trauma on health and disease the, 2010supporting
the result of all this has been an amputation of the concept of humanity with which medicine does its job… Medicine has been slow to realize that how people feel about their medical condition is a major factor in the outcome of treatment.
Damasio argues that Cartesian dualism — the philosophical foundation of the biomedical model — has truncated medicine’s conception of the human being, with concrete consequences for treatment efficacy.
, Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, 1994supporting
the suggestion that reasoning, and moral judgment, and the suffering that comes from physical pain or emotional upheaval might exist separately from the body.
Damasio identifies Cartesian mind-body separation as the philosophical error underpinning reductive biomedical frameworks that exclude emotional and somatic integration.
, Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, 1994aside
all mental processes are biological — they all depend on organic molecules and cellular processes that occur literally ‘in our heads.’ Therefore, any disorder or alteration of those processes must also have a biological basis.
Kandel articulates a strong biologistic position that, while not explicitly defending the biomedical model, provides the philosophical grounding upon which such a model rests.
, In search of memory the emergence of a new science of mind, 2006aside