From Invisible Illness: The biomedical model of mental illness is a reductionist paradigm that focuses excessively on locating biomarkers and neural correlates of emotional distress at the cost of exploring the social and environmental factors of mental health challenges.
If one uses the term “mental illness” one is embracing the medical model. As ALL medicine is “bio,” to differentiate between “medical” and “biomedical” is incorrect and perpetuates confusion.
True, but it’s still necessary to be aware of physical conditions that induce or exacerbate “mental” symptoms that can respond to appropriate (not neuroleptic) treatments. There are a number of them that shrinks usually don’t find, because they’re not really aware of them in the first place.
