This post by Vincenzo has been published on his blog-site. It begins:
“In the latest edition of Asylum Magazine, Dr Awais Aftab published an article on the relation between Psychopharmacology and Mad Liberation and brought it to my attention. The full article has been posted online and can be found at the following link:
I want to thank Awais for picking my brain about this, as it helps me re-think and re-word what my views are and what exactly I’m trying to say.
As always, I am mindful of the fact that the focus of the social media debate on issues related to mental health care is generally not what I would concentrate on. There tends to be for example an ongoing vibrant debate on technical interventions offered by care providers, and on evaluations on which interventions are the best, which are the most scientific and even which are the most liberating.
In this respect, in this article Awais quite appropriately asks what principles might guide a liberatory psychopharmacology. That is a more promising line of enquiry, as it implies that the problem is not about psychopharmacological interventions being good or bad, or scientific or not scientific in absolute terms, but about how psychopharmacology and the related science are used …”
You can read more from here.
Other posts about collaborative practice:
Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships
Antidepressants are not antidepressants – an alternative approach to drug action and implications for the use of antidepressants
We launched a study of music and song writing with people who hear voices that others don’t. … I want to share some quotes from our participants…