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Ronald F. Levant (n.d.), candidate for position of president of the American Psychological Association, sees the future of professional psychology as one where a shift will take place from its being focused on mental health issues per se, to its being perceived as a discipline that deals with health in general.
Although not explaining his reasons for the occurrence of this difference in perception, his theory may likely originate from the fact that contemporary psychology tends to focus on the biopsychological / pharmaceutical determinants of human mental welfare, particularly with its interest on the brain, and from its reduction of so many of its sub-fields (such as addiction, depression, disease, and so forth) to medical models. From there it is a short step to equivocating certain areas of psychology with medicine and, once done, psychology seems inseparable from the discipline of Medicine. Levant (n.d.) states that with psychology entering the realm of, and fusing into, primary
... Turning the coin around, one study found that approximately 16% of somatic diseases had an organic compound. Psychology and medicine are so tightly bound that the two are virtually inextricable. Dealing with one, enables one to reduce or mitigate the other. Consistent empirical research shows that addressing psychological problems invariably reduces disease across all aspects of the population and across all disease boundaries. The future of professional psychology, therefore, will be one where psychologists will be on the frontlines of healthcare working collaboratively with doctors and nurses to cure individuals. In a more visionary sense, professional psychology will advance to the point where health care will be reorganized so that psychology precedes health care in providing insights and perspective in preventing illness in the first place. Professional psychology will tread into…
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