Paradigm shift in psychiatry: what may it involve?

CONCLUSIONS: New findings in traumatology and neuroscience do form a potential platform for a paradigm shift. Prior conflicting paradigms are suggested to be due to biases arising from mental structures themselves. A new wholist perspective is proposed, which makes sense of and incorporates previous paradigms, and coheres recent understanding of right- and left-brain functioning and biopsychosocial traumatic processes and their ramifications. The perspective makes sense of the great variety of post-traumatic manifestations ranging from somatic to meaning-making dysfunctions. The wholist perspective may well be an important step in solidifying a fresh paradigmatic perspective in psychiatry. PMID: 29320866 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29320866?dopt=Abstract

Source: Australasian Psychiatry - January 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Valent P Tags: Australas Psychiatry Source Type: research