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The New WHO and UN Guidance: Psychiatry Must Entirely Change

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The agenda of the launch event is here , and the full video here ). standard mental hospital procedures unavoidably violate human rights). You can’t have it both ways although, with their spurious biopsychosocial model and their eclectic psychiatry, they tried.

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

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The prescription included a total of eight medications, two of which were injections, for a 16-year-old girl who had presented with a two-day history of vague physical symptoms following a stressful event. Consultants in public hospitals routinely arrive late and leave early. This was unquestionably an unethical practice.

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Mad in Ireland

Mad in America

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. In Ireland, we’re very good at paying lip service to these things, she explains.