Tag: social constructionism

One “side effect” of meds is that they can reinforce people’s passivity towards their emotions, obscuring an understanding of themselves as having agency, as being the active creators of their lives — including their emotional lives. This has to be on the table in talking with clients about whether they want medications to be part of their development picture.

A new paper explores how the disputed nature of psychiatric knowledge influences public perceptions and debates within the field of mental health.