https://www.madinamerica.com/2017/06/do-psychiatrists-harm-patients-out-of-stupidity/
Click on the above link to visit http://www.madinamerica.com for this accurate, perceptive piece by Michael about the ‘disease model’ of psychiatry, which lacks both an evidence base and humanity, and challenges basic common sense.
Michael is writing in the U.S. context, but what he says applies equally in the U.K., and his perspective accords closely with how we see the ‘mental illness’ model at this service.
‘The narrow constraints of the disease model theory and practice create a closed system of thinking where a kind of unquestioning conformity exists — one that lacks the permission for broader imaginative exploration, as was the spark and genesis for the powerful work that RD Laing contributed, for instance. Laing’s heretical rebellion broadened the scope of our understanding. His imagination and brutal honesty allowed him to see the forest for the trees. He could see the bigger picture of the toxic social and economic factors of modern industrial society that alienate and traumatize all of us and our families.’
Yes. Thank you, Michael.
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