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The New WHO and UN Guidance: Psychiatry Must Entirely Change

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In practice, however, this broad definition attracts little more than lip service. of government health spending, the majority of which is spent on institutions and on physical care: “…the biomedical model, which focuses predominantly on diagnosis, medication and symptom reduction, prevails across existing mental health systems.

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Is Madness an Evolved Signal? Justin Garson on Strategy Versus Dysfunction

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So I wonder, in your research, what did you come to think about the way in which we’ve pursued a definitive classification of mental suffering? I’ll talk to folks who say, “Look, psychiatry isn’t really using a medical model anymore, we’ve moved past that.

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Who Do We Leave Behind When We Ignore the Body? Why Critical Neuroscientists and Mad Activists Must Work Together

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On the one hand, the biopsychosocial model is the most proliferated, which in theory acknowledges psychological and societal factors alongside biological ones, but slapping these three domains together within one model does little to elucidate the interplay between them.

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Decolonizing Psychiatry in Pakistan: A Reckoning with our Colonial Past and a Call for Reconstruction

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The diagnostic guidelines we follow are not scripture, and they are definitely not based on unquestionable science. It is an archaic, essentially Western model that believes reality is mechanical and is best understood by breaking it down into its most fundamental parts. 10 Minutes per Patient?

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Mad in Ireland

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Hough notes that, while Irelands mental health system has recently started using terms like biopsychosocial model, human rights, and trauma-informed, actual practices remain essentially the same as always. If you use the evidence that supports their treatment, then by definition the purpose is to harm others.