Biodynamic And Psychodynamic Methods: A Psychological Analysis
Although she claimed that both these models of illness and treatment are correct and equally effective, still she stated that with “the available evidence we have suggests that for most patients and for most disorders, psychopharmacology and psychotherapy work best in combination. Patients improve more quickly and stay out of the hospital for longer when the two approaches are used in tandem” (Luhrmann, page 23). However, she can also see biomedical and psychodynamic methods as mismatched due to the differences when they are understood as “ideals”. This is shown through a quote on page 158, “These two ideals embody different moral sensibilities, different fundamental commitments, different bottom lines. In some ways the differences are subtle;