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

Mad in America

Yet rather than engage with this, the authors strategically construct arguments as though they are unaware of any such issue. World Psychiatric Association/World Medical Association ) The binary structures deployed in these open letters are strategic.

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Dostoevsky: A Psychologist We Can All Learn From

Mad in America

When Nietzsche said this of Dostoevsky in 1888 (and again, more forcefully in Twilight of the Idols , published the following year), he was likely referring to the psychology of Wilhelm Wundt. The biopsychosocial model of psychology as it is taught and practiced today, is stilled heavily influenced by the scope determined by Wundt.