George Libman Engel (1913-1999) was an American psychiatrist. He spent most of his career at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York. He is best known his formulation of the biopsychosocial model, a general theory of illness and healing.
Engel was born in New York City in 1913. He completed his undergraduate degree in chemistry from Dartmouth College in 1934. In the same year, he entered Johns Hopkins University School o...
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George Libman Engel (1913-1999) was an American psychiatrist. He spent most of his career at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York. He is best known his formulation of the biopsychosocial model, a general theory of illness and healing.
Engel was born in New York City in 1913. He completed his undergraduate degree in chemistry from Dartmouth College in 1934. In the same year, he entered Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland to study medicine. He received his medical degree in 1938.
After completing his medical degree, Engel began an internship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. There physicians such as Eli Moschowitz and Lawrence Kubie were incorporating psychosomatics into the clinical service. At the time, Engel was skeptical of psychoanalysis and psychosomatic medicine. He was committed to purely physical explanations of disease processes.
Engel began a Research Fellowship in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and also...
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