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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Six)

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14 Many psychologists do not realise that they have a great advantage over psychiatrists, which is that they are educated with the aim of understanding the patients where they are and helping them with psychotherapy and other forms of support. Whether drugs are legal or illegal, it is unhealthy to perturb brain functions with them.

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Upcoming ECT Legislation Needs to Be Revised

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2021; Read & Harrop, 2022; Read & Moncrieff, 2022; Reisner, 2003; Roche, 2016; Rogers, 2021; Schwartzkopff, 2020; Simonson, 2020; Singh, 2016; Sweetmore, 2022; Teixeira, 2020). We Must Not Remove Legal Protections for People at Risk of Forced ECT. Hundreds forced to have ECT without legal representation. link] Dubey, C.