MEDICÍNSKÝ MODEL A PSYCHOTERAPIE
THE MEDICAL MODEL AND PSYCHOTHERAPY

Summary/Abstract: 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.

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