Conclusion
The complementarity principle employed in the early 20th century by Niels Bohr for the purpose of resolving conflict in the emerging picture of quantum physics research may help us clarify our insights into and achieve better coherence and internal logic in our examination of various aspects of mental processes, both normal and pathological. Viewing the psychotherapeutic (especially its psychodynamic variety) model, focused on relations, as independent of and yet complementing that of the psychiatric medical model, concentrating on the patient-object with specific properties (symptoms), may help rid each of these models of their controversies, making them more internally logical and clear (Chistyakov M. S., 2017). At the same time, this can assist in viewing both models as supplementing and not competing with each other, as equipollent, neither one dominating over the other. This author posits that such a standpoint would enhance both their independent development and their mutual favorable influence. It might also be useful in clinician practices to observe each case of mental disorders, employing the complementarity principle, simultaneously from two angles (two independent coordinate axes): in terms of the medical psychiatric model, and in terms of the psychotherapeutic (especially, psychodynamic) model. Furthermore, the author believes that while applying any type of psychotherapy in complex treatment of patients with periodically recurring outbursts of psychotic states, both psychiatrists and psychotherapists (irrespective of the latter having any formal psychiatric training) have to be involved (owing to different modalities of psychotherapists’ and psychiatrists’ work) and that this is the obligatory condition for such treatment.
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