George L. Engel

George L. Engel

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name = George Libman Engel


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birth_date = 1913
birth_place = New York City, New York
death_date = 1999
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residence = Rochester, New York
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nationality = American
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fields = Psychiatrist
workplaces = University of Rochester Medical Center
alma_mater = Dartmouth College Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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known_for = Biopsychosocial model
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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.cite journal |last=Dowling |first=A. Scott |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=November 2005 |title=George Engel, M.D. (1913–1999) |journal=The American Journal of Psychiatry |volume=162 |issue=11 |pages=2039 |doi=10.1176/appi.ajp.162.11.2039 |url=http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/162/11/2039 |accessdate=2008-07-03 |quote= ]

Early life

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.cite web |url=http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/hslt/miner/historical_services/archives/Faculty/PapersofGeorgeLibmanEngel.cfm |title=Papers of George Libman Engel |accessdate=2008-07-03 |author= |date= |work= |publisher=University of Rochester Medical Center]

Academic career

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 became Research Fellow in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and also Graduate Assistant in Medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (now Brigham and Women's Hospital) in 1941. He came under the supervision of physician Soma Weiss, who at this time was becoming interested in psychosomatics. At this time, he first met with psychiatrist John Romano. Romano had arrived in Boston several years before Engel. With the encouragement from Weiss, Engel and Romano collaborated on a study of delusional patients. In 1942, Romano became chairman of the psychiatry department at the University of Cincinnati. Romano invited Engel to join the faculty at Cincinnati and Engel accepted the invitation. At this point Engel "converted" to the psychosomatic school.

University of Rochester

Romano was given the opportunity to establish an entirely new psychiatry department at the School of Medicine and Dentistry of the University of Rochester Medical Center in 1946. Engel joined Romano in Rochester. He had dual appointments in psychiatry and medicine departments. He was responsible for establishing a medical psychiatric liaison service staffed largely by internists. He became deeply involved in the incorporation of psychiatric training in the medical school curriculum, and also began his own training in psychoanalysis.

Engel began collaboration with Franz Reichsman on the Monica project, a study which extended from Monica's infancy to adulthood, in 1953. By the mid-1950s, he was considered as one of the major figures in psychosomatic studies. He was prominent in the American Psychosomatic Society. He also edited its journal, "Psychosomatic medicine" and began publishing numerous books and articles on the relation of emotion and disease and on the incorporation of these ideas into medical training and clinical practice. Under his direction, the program at the university became a leading center in the development of psychosomatic theory and training. His ideas came to be termed as the biopsychosocial model.

The fundamental assumption of the biopsychosocial model is that health and illness are consequences of the interplay of biological, psychological, and social factors. This concept is particularly important in health psychology. [cite book |title=Health Psychology |last=Taylor |first=Shelley E. |authorlink= |edition=Sixth Edition |year=2006 |publisher=McGraw-Hill |location= |isbn=0071251936 |pages=11-12 ] This model was theorised by Engel at Rochester and putatively discussed in a 1977 article in the journal "Science". [cite journal |last=Engel |first=George |authorlink= |coauthors= |date=April 8, 1977 |title=The need for a new medical model: a challenge for biomedicine |journal=Science |volume=196 |issue= |pages=129–136 |pmid=847460 |url= |accessdate=2008-07-02 ]

Later years

In his later years, Engel never lost his sense of humor and his generosity. He was admired by his students and physicians who worked with him. He died in 1999.

Awards and honors

Engel received many awards and honors from the American College of Physicians and the American Psychiatric Association for his work.

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