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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