Psychotherapie in der Humanmedizin
摘要
Every human being lives from the world around them (the “environment”), i.e. from the given physical-chemical or ecological as well as psycho-socio-cultural environment. They draw all the energy they need for survival from this environment (their specific “living environment”). Without knowledge of this individual lifeworld, no human being can be adequately understood. The psycho-social and medical sciences need to do justice to this complexity and move beyond the common concept of “human beings as complex machines”. There is a need to expand to an approach that views humans as bio-psycho-social beings who are inextricably linked to their physical-chemical and socio-cultural lifeworlds encompassing the “outer worlds” that help shape the “inner world” of humans. Using the example of the system-theoretical bio-psycho-social model—better described in its current version as body-mind unity theory—the implications for the field of human medicine are discussed: dysfunctional thinking, feeling and behaviour are powerful influencing factors for health and disease processes and, at the same time, the genuine field of work of psychotherapy. The treatment with psychological methods—that is, psychotherapy—is therefore an indispensable service of contemporary healthcare. Without psychotherapy, “human medicine” would be incomplete.