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

Mad in America

The insistence on the redemptive qualities and widespread acceptance of the biopsychosocial model and psychiatric pluralism seem to fall into this domain, given that psychiatry has, in practice, remained dominated by biomedicine going under the guide of the biopsychosocial modelreferred to by some as “ bio-bio-bio ” model of madness.

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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.