New terminology used on this website:

Biopsychosocial

Integrative Medicine

META-Medicine

Meta-disciplinary

Multi-disciplinary

Biopsychosocial
1) Term used to describe the synchronous interaction between the biochemical (bio), emotional-mental (psycho) and social-environmental (social) level of an organism or system. In terms of health, biopsychosocial refers to the organ-mind-brain-environment connection. Each level of our organism effects and is influenced by the other levels.

Integrative Medicine
1) Term used to describe an integrative, comprehensive approach in medicine; traditional medicine and Complementary Medicine practitioners working together for the good of the patient.

META-Medicine
1) A new understanding of disease, healing and health based on a biopsychosocial model of integrative medicine.
2) Researching and educating about the cause and process of disease based on an meta-disciplinary, holistic and integrative model of medicine and healing.
3) A worldwide network of doctors, naturopaths and health practitioners; accredited by the Intl. Meta-Medicine Association as META-Medicine consultants, META-Medicine doctors or META-Medicine naturopaths.

Meta-disciplinary
1) overdetermined model, in which all specialists or disciplines of medicine work together
2) researchers or specialists trained in two or more disciplines working together on a common problem with the same overdetermined understanding and conceptual framework.
3) common platform between all fields of medicine

Multi-disciplinary
1) researchers or specialists from two or more disciplines working together on a common problem, but without altering their disciplinary approaches or developing a common conceptual framework.