How could Fanon’s psychosocial model on pathology be defended?
The objective of the essay is to investigate the nature of mental illness and abnormality with philosophical findings by studying some phenomena. Upon the topic of nature of mental illness, Fanon’s psychosocial model deems social factors as nature of mental illness. The opposing view to Fanon’s is the biological model of mental illness. Its constructs see the biological basis as the nature of mental illness. Firstly, in this essay, I am going to further introduce the biological model and psychosocial model. Secondly, I will defend psychosocial model with Fanon’s view and argue against biological model, by evaluating both models in order to seek the most plausible account for determining the nature of mental illness among two models. Finally, in this essay, I will conclude that Fanon’s psychosocial model helps explain why social factor plays a vital role in determining the nature of mental illness and helps establish a more plausible picture to determine the nature of mental illness as social factor instead of biological basis.