title: Transdisciplinary holistic integrative psychiatry - a wishfull thinking or reality?
abstract: Modern psychiatry in the last century proposed several aggregative biopsychosocial models as an opposition to prevailing fragmentary, reductionistic and dogmatic approaches. Although the biopsychosocial approach has become the mainstream concept of the present-day psychiatry, it is not fruitful enough because it is excessively broad and provides no real complex field integration and guidance to clinicians and researchers. The postmodern psychiatry alternatives have been appeared as pluralism and integrationism. Holistic and integrative approach in medicine and psychiatry is built on the premise that human beings in health and disease are complex systems of dinamically interacting biological, psychological, social, energetic, informational and spiritual processes. Emerging as a transdisciplinary holistic, complementary and integrative psychiatry implies widely accepted general systems theory on psychopathology, novel integrating interpretative models, new integrative understanding of etiopathogenesis or meanings of symptoms, and novel integrative assessment and treatment approaches addressing those etiopathogenesis and meanings.
authors.affiliation: University Psychiatric Clinic Rebro, Clinical Hospital Centre Zagreb, Kispatićeva 12, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia, predstojnik_psi@kbc-zagreb.hr
authors.forename: Miro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jakovljević
mesh_terms: D001689:Biological Psychiatry / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D008603:Mental Health / Q000145:classification; D008960:Models, Psychological; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000379:methods*; D011364:Professional Practice / Q000592:standards*; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D013598:Systems Theory; D009626:Terminology as Topic