The biopsychosocial model views health and illness as influenced by multiple interacting factors including biological, psychological, and social factors. It posits that biological events have psychological and social impacts, and vice versa. The model was first proposed by psychiatrist George Engel in the 1970s as an alternative to the biomedical model. While widely adopted, some critics argue it lacks clarity and promotes an artificial distinction between biological and psychological factors.

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5. BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL MODEL Neuroscience does not intend to reduce all phenomena to neurotransmission or to reinterpret them in a new language of synapses, receptors, and circuits. Psychological and sociocultural events and phenomena continue to have meaning for mental health and mental illness.

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