Jump to content
 







Main menu
   


Navigation  



Main page
Contents
Current events
Random article
About Wikipedia
Contact us
Donate
 




Contribute  



Help
Learn to edit
Community portal
Recent changes
Upload file
 








Search  

































Create account

Log in
 









Create account
 Log in
 




Pages for logged out editors learn more  



Contributions
Talk
 



















Contents

   



(Top)
 


1 History  



1.1  Early life  





1.2  Academic career  



1.2.1  University of Rochester  







1.3  Late years  







2 Awards and honors  





3 Publications  





4 References  














George L. Engel






العربية
Deutsch
Español
Italiano
مصرى
 

Edit links
 









Article
Talk
 

















Read
Edit
View history
 








Tools
   


Actions  



Read
Edit
View history
 




General  



What links here
Related changes
Upload file
Special pages
Permanent link
Page information
Cite this page
Get shortened URL
Download QR code
Wikidata item
 




Print/export  



Download as PDF
Printable version
 
















Appearance
   

 






From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 


George Libman Engel
Born(1913-12-10)December 10, 1913
DiedNovember 26, 1999(1999-11-26) (aged 85)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materDartmouth College
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Known forBiopsychosocial model
Scientific career
FieldsPsychiatry and Medicine
InstitutionsUniversity of Rochester Medical Center

George Libman Engel (December 10, 1913 – November 26, 1999) was an American internist and psychiatrist. He spent most of his career at the University of Rochester Medical CenterinRochester, New York. He is best known for his formulation of the biopsychosocial model, a general theory of illness and healing.[1]

History[edit]

Early life[edit]

Engel was born in New York City in 1913.[2] He completed his undergraduate degree in chemistry from Dartmouth College in 1934. In the same year, he entered Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineinBaltimore, Maryland to study medicine. He received his medical degree in 1938.[3]

Academic career[edit]

After completing his medical degree, Engel began an internship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City; their 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.[3]

Engel began a Research Fellowship 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.[3]

University of Rochester[edit]

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.[3]

Engel began a collaboration with Franz Reichsman on the Monica project, a study that extended from Monica's infancy to adulthood, in 1953. By the mid-1950s, he was considered 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.[3]

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.[4] This model was theorised by Engel at Rochester and putatively discussed in a 1977 article in the journal Science.[5]

Late years[edit]

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 suddenly of heart failure in 1999.[1][6]

Awards and honors[edit]

Engel received many awards and honors from the American College of Physicians and the American Psychiatric Association for his work.[3]

Publications[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Dowling, A. Scott (November 2005). "George Engel, M.D. (1913–1999)". The American Journal of Psychiatry. 162 (11): 2039. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.162.11.2039. PMID 16263840. Retrieved 2008-07-03.
  • ^ Debus, Allen G. (1968). World Who's Who in Science: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Scientists from Antiquity to the Present. Marquis Who's Who. ISBN 9780837910017.
  • ^ a b c d e f "Papers of George Libman Engel". University of Rochester Medical Center. Retrieved 2008-07-03.
  • ^ Taylor, Shelley E. (2006). Health Psychology (Sixth ed.). McGraw-Hill. pp. 11–12. ISBN 978-0-07-125193-8.
  • ^ Engel, George (April 8, 1977). "The need for a new medical model: a challenge for biomedicine". Science. 196 (4286): 129–136. Bibcode:1977Sci...196..129E. doi:10.1126/science.847460. PMID 847460.
  • ^ "George L. Engel, MD". JAMA. 283 (21): 2857. 2000. doi:10.1001/jama.283.21.2857.

  • Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_L._Engel&oldid=1152431207"

    Categories: 
    1913 births
    1999 deaths
    American psychiatrists
    Dartmouth College alumni
    Harvard Medical School people
    Johns Hopkins School of Medicine alumni
    University of Cincinnati faculty
    University of Rochester faculty
    Physicians from New York City
    20th-century American physicians
    Members of the National Academy of Medicine
    Hidden categories: 
    Articles with short description
    Short description is different from Wikidata
    Articles with hCards
    Articles with FAST identifiers
    Articles with ISNI identifiers
    Articles with VIAF identifiers
    Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
    Articles with BIBSYS identifiers
    Articles with GND identifiers
    Articles with J9U identifiers
    Articles with LCCN identifiers
    Articles with Libris identifiers
    Articles with NDL identifiers
    Articles with NKC identifiers
    Articles with NTA identifiers
    Articles with PLWABN identifiers
    Articles with SNAC-ID identifiers
    Articles with SUDOC identifiers
     



    This page was last edited on 30 April 2023, at 05:41 (UTC).

    Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.



    Privacy policy

    About Wikipedia

    Disclaimers

    Contact Wikipedia

    Code of Conduct

    Developers

    Statistics

    Cookie statement

    Mobile view



    Wikimedia Foundation
    Powered by MediaWiki