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Global Psychiatry’s Attempt to Excommunicate the Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health

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The UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights declared the work “groundbreaking”: In 2017, the Special Rapporteur issued a ground-breaking report addressing the “global burden of obstacles” in mental health settings and in the field of psychiatry. The obstacles are: 1. the dominance of the biomedical paradigm; 2.

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Dostoevsky: A Psychologist We Can All Learn From

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Yuri Corrigan, Assistant Professor of Russian Literature at Boston University, in his 2017 book Dostoevsky and The Riddle of the Self , described his writing as: “a vast experimental canvas on which the problem of selfhood is continuously explored over the course of four decades.”