Tom Weidig and Gilles Michaux have published a review article in the Elsevier Journal New Ideas in Psychology.

You can access the article here or by emailing tom.weidig@gmail.com.

Abstract

The biopsychosocial model is the prevailing conceptual model in relationship to which clinicians organize their analysis, evaluation and intervention. Since its promotion by Engel, little work has been done to provide a more solid conceptual basis for the rela- tionship between the biological and the psychosocial processes in sickness and in health. We propose such a framework, using the perspective of life forms as information gathering and utilizing systems. We derive the simplest non-trivial model, the four domain model, which consists of the physical domains determining human processes: the environment, the body, the confined memories, and the communicable memories. We then re-visit Engel's case study to contrast our model with his systems approach, and apply it to is- sues in psychosomatics and the mind-body connection.