The Vulnerability-Stress-Model-Holding Up the Construct of the Faulty Individual in the Light of Challenges to the Medical Model of Mental Distress.

In the late 1970s, the course seemed to be set for a reconciliation of the controversy around the somatic vs. the social nature of mental distress. The biopsychosocial model and the vulnerability-stress-model were influential agents in this move, but a medicalized somatic view on mental distress persisted nonetheless.