Written by: A. L. Lucino Jr, M.D., M.A., Ph.D-c
Doctoral Research Paper
Historical Systems in Psychopathology Research
Since the famous case of Phineas Gage in 1848, who was a British industrial worker who experienced profound personality change after his life altering accident that resulted in a metal rod that damaged his central nervous system (Hergenhahn, 2009), there has been considerable research and interest on how behavior can be affected if there is organic damage to the central nervous system, which is primarily composed of the brain and the spinal cord (Sadock and Sadock, 2007). A phenomenon has occurred recently in the late 20th century and continues to this present time where there is an interest in understanding how disease manifestation happens. This need to understand how disease occurs and what factors influence this led to the birth of the Biopsychosocial model, which has stated that there are many factors that influence an individual’s mental and physical well-being and Engel called this the Biopsychosocial model (Suls, Krantz and Williams, 2013).
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