academic psychiatry – A New Vision for Mental Health

Conceptual Competence in Psychiatry: Recommendations for Education and Training

Author: Editorial 30th March 2022 0 Comments

This paper by Awais Aftab and G. Scott Waterman has been published in Academic Psychiatry. It begins: “It has been recognized since the early days of modern psychiatry that conceptual and philosophical questions are intimately tied to more practical and clinical…
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a coherent system

academic psychiatry, Awais Aftab, G. Scott Waterman, philosophy, philosophy of psychiatry, psychiatry

Unconventional Views About Mental Health

Author: Editorial 30th April 2020 0 Comments

“I am very concerned that senior, powerful, psychiatrists are trying to silence those who are vocal regarding psychotropic medications, and psychiatry’s ’medical model’. These issues can’t be ignored. Academic Psychiatry should acknowledge when new research raises serious issues (like withdrawal…
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collaborative practice

academic psychiatry, Critical Psychiatry Network, Evgeny Legedin, Mad in the UK, Open Dialogue, psychiatry

Psychiatry Under the Influence: Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform

Author: Editorial 1st November 2018 0 Comments

Psychiatry Under the Influence has been written by Robert Whitaker and Lisa Cosgrove. The publishers say that this book “investigates how the influence of pharmaceutical money and guild interests has corrupted the behavior of the American Psychiatric Association and academic psychiatry during the past…
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collaborative practice

academic psychiatry, American Psychiatric Association, big pharma, books, corruption, Lisa Cosgrove, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, Robert Whitaker