Tag: disease model of mental health
Do Psychiatrists Harm their Patients out of Stupidity?
I think it is fair to say that many psychiatrists display an enormous lack of good sense and judgment. Psychiatrists are in the firm grip of a collective force field of an almost fundamentalist belief system that blinds them to the harm they unwittingly do and the human rights abuses they commit.
What if the Folly is in Us, Too?
Faced with behavior different from our own or from our expectations, all of us feel that urge to âdo somethingââan act that is one of the beginnings of prejudice, a malignant virus that all of us have trouble shaking free of. We doctors, especially, want to do something: Itâs what weâve been trained to do.
âPoliticians and Experts Meet at Parliament to Explore Record Antidepressant Prescribing...
The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence is meeting today, May 11th, to discuss evidence of the link between the rise in disability...
âWhy We Need to Abandon the Disease-Model of Mental Health Careâ
In a guest blog for the Scientific American, Peter Kinderman takes on the âharmful mythâ that our more distressing emotions can best be understood as symptoms of physical illnesses. âOur present approach to helping vulnerable people in acute emotional distress is severely hampered by old-fashioned, inhumane and fundamentally unscientific ideas about the nature and origins of mental health problems.â