Bulletin of Integrative Psychiatry
Integrative psychiatry is developing all over the world having alternative (CAM), included in the conventional psychiatry, based on scientific experiments which aim at safety and efficiency. CAM represents the diagnosis for treatment and/or prevention which supports the basic (primary) medicine, contributing, in this way, to shaping a common entity by answering some requirements, and it is not approached in the classical manner or by diversifying the conceptual framework of medicine (Ernst at.al., 1995)
In order to outline the bio-psycho-social concept, regardless of the complexity of the research, focusing on the causes of diseases and no matter how many ways of a therapeutic approach might exist, medicine will always try to keep its three-dimensional, complex character in agreement to the nature of the human being.
In this relationship between form and content, medicine needs and will always need any biological, psychological and social resource in order to prevent, eliminate or compensate the causes of affections.
In other words, in psychiatry all the factors which have a role in maintaining health by a selective gathering of information are equally and permanently corroborated with the person who is being unique in the centenary medical process.
Having in view its clinical and theoretical implications, the medical bio-psycho-social concept encompasses a larger domain in psychiatry than the biomedical model due to its interdisciplinary connections and represents a reaction to the reductionism of antipsychiatry. The integration and implementation of this complex model may be of help in solving the problems resulting from the excessive sub-brunching of psychiatry and, by extrapolation, of medicine as a whole. The integrative psychiatry, like the conventional psychiatry is based on the principles of medicine based on evidence. The principles are: a) finding the most specific scientific evidence for each treatment;
b) the unfolding of the treatment is established by the principles, choices and the reference context of patients, and also by c) the experience and competence of the therapist. (Sackett et al., 2000).
If we have in view the psychiatric gnosology of the recent years, we can notice that the problems of the mental disturbances represent a subject approached in various ways on various levels, although it is claimed that a non-theoretical basis is looked for in order to observe the socio-humanitarian objectives.
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