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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 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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The New WHO and UN Guidance: Psychiatry Must Entirely Change

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A fter years of work involving hundreds of people in dozens of countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) have released their joint production, Mental Health, Human Rights and Legislation: Guidance and Practice ( WHO/OHCHR , 2023, referred to as the Guidance.

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Dostoevsky: A Psychologist We Can All Learn From

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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.

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