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Psychiatry’s playbook is about to get torn up | Science Quickly Podcast
Psychiatry’s playbook is about to get torn up | Science Quickly Podcast
I have been saying for over a decade now that this "mental disorders" business is indeed a lot of business and not much science. You cannot categorize people like that and put them into boxes like ADHD, Depression, Bipolar, etc.. People's mental states are far more complex.
But it works well to have these labels in our trade-based society where everything needs to be in boxes, so that insurance companies, drug companies, or companies who employ people can "understand" that Jen is depressed, will prescribe her some pills through an insurance company, and Jen can get some paid leave.
Yet in the process no one understood what made Jen feel that way or how to fix her problems. Maybe she has little money, little time, maybe she is stress that her rent increased or her brain is a mush because her phone is consuming her life with ads and data collection. Trades trades trades
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Psychiatry’s playbook is about to get torn up | Science Quickly Podcast
I have been saying for over a decade now that this "mental disorders" business is indeed a lot of business and not much science. You cannot categorize people like that and put them into boxes like ADHD, Depression, Bipolar, etc.. People's mental states are far more complex.
But it works well to have these labels in our trade-based society where everything needs to be in boxes, so that insurance companies, drug companies, or companies who employ people can "understand" that Jen is depressed, will prescribe her some pills through an insurance company, and Jen can get some paid leave.
Yet in the process no one understood what made Jen feel that way or how to fix her problems. Maybe she has little money, little time, maybe she is stress that her rent increased or her brain is a mush because her phone is consuming her life with ads and data collection. Trades trades trades.
Now Jen can anesthetize herself with some prescribed medicine, and can get back to her life soon.
So WOW now finally the people in charge of the bible of mental disorders, DSM, are starting to see through their thin diagnosis practice and say perhaps things need to change since you cannot do any medical test to see if someone has ADHD, or is depressed or whatever...
How about (I know wild idea) when people have problems we try to understand what causes these problems and try to help them!? Housing, access to free healthcare, access to a fucking life that is not about being a worker!
I wrote a book all about this tromsite.com/trombooks/#flipbo… and a smaller one too tromsite.com/trombooks/#flipbo…
And had a great chat with a psychologist and psychiatrist -
TROMcast: Mental Disorders
Help the fucking people and stop pretending that we can fit in these narrow boxes.
#psychology #psychiatry #mentalillness #mentaldisorders #adhd #depression #trom #tromsite #dsm
TROMcast: Mental Disorders
Our guests today are:
Joanna Moncrieff:
She is a practicing psychiatrist and a part-time academic and author. Her work is focused on the use, misuse and misrepresentation of psychiatric drugs. For 10 years Joanna was a consultant for a psychiatric rehabilitation inpatient unit, helping people with severe and long-lasting mental health problems. For the last 3 years Joanna has been based in various community mental health services in North East London. She teaches and does research at the University College London.
Joanna is one of the founding members and the co-chair person of the Critical Psychiatry Network, which consists of a group of psychiatrists from around the world who are skeptical of the idea that mental disorders are simply brain diseases and of the dominance of the pharmaceutical industry.
joannamoncrieff.com/about/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_M…
Lucy Johnstone:
She is a UK clinical psychologist, trainer, speaker and writer, and a long-standing critic of the biomedical model of psychiatry. Lucy has authored a number of books, articles and chapters on topics such as psychiatric diagnosis, formulation, the psychological effects of ECT, and the role of trauma in breakdown.
She is currently convening a group of leading UK clinical psychologists and mental health experts who are working to develop an evidence-based and conceptually coherent alternative to the current diagnostic systems.
adisorder4everyone.com/bio/luc…
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