Giovanni Andrea Fava • Chiara Ruini
Editors

2014

Interventions and Cultural Contexts

In the past decades, psychological well-being has achieved a prominent role in the biopsychosocial consideration of the dynamic balance between health and disease. Early pioneers were physicians and scientists embracing the psychosomatic approach. George Engel defined etiologic factors as “factors which either place a burden on, or limit the capacity of systems concerned with growth, development or adaptation” (Engel 1960, p. 473).