biomedical model – A New Vision for Mental Health

Toward a Change of Paradigm in Psychosis: A Contextual Phenomenological Approach

Author: Editorial 1st May 2023 0 Comments

This abstract is of a chapter in Psychological Interventions for Psychosis that has been co-authored by Marino Pérez-Álvarez & José Manuel García-Montes: “This chapter sets out the increasing evidence that makes it clear that the understanding of psychosis from the…
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biomedical model, contextual model, holism, Marino Pérez-Álvarez, Marino Pérez-Álvarez & José Manuel García-Montes, phenomenology, psychiatry, psychosis, psychotherapy

The importance of empathic listening for making meaning of distress

Author: Editorial 17th April 2023 0 Comments

This article by Robert Murphy has been re-published by Mad in the UK. It begins: “Psychiatry has failed to provide a definitive explanatory framework for mental illnesses, despite more than a hundred years of scientific and medical research. Its failure results…
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biomedical model, diagnostic labelling, empathic listening, empathy, Mad in the UK, madness, meaning-making, psychiatry, Robert Murphy

Psychiatry’s Cycle of Ignorance and Reinvention: An Interview with Owen Whooley

Author: Editorial 15th February 2023 0 Comments

Ayurdhi Dhar has interviewed sociologist Prof. Owen Whooley – author of On the Heels of Ignorance : Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing – about psychiatry’s stubborn perseverance in the face of recent DSM embarrassments and the failures of the biomedical model. The interview…
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Ayurdhi Dhar, biomedical model, chemical imbalance theory, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, DSM, Mad in America, Owen Whooley, psychiatry

The Biases of Western Medicine | Gabor Maté, MD

Author: Editorial 1st February 2023 0 Comments

This transcript of a talk by Dr. Gabor Maté has been published by Sustainable Human . It begins: “In the realm of child development, I just wish we’d actually look at the evidence. But we don’t. I worked in family practice for…
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ADHD, biomedical model, children and adolescents, Gabor Maté, Mad in America, Sustainable Human, trauma-informed approaches, videos

Doctor knows best, poisoned chalices, and beings on drugs: Young people’s accounts of getting the diagnosis of bipolar disorder

Author: Editorial 21st November 2022 0 Comments

This account by JP Marshall of part of a research study has been published by Mad in the UK. It begins: “Not long ago, as part of a research study, I asked six young people how it was for them to…
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antidepressants, biomedical model, bipolar, diagnostic labelling, JP Marshall, Mad in the UK, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry

Critical Suicidology: Transforming Suicide Research and Prevention for the 21st Century

Author: Editorial 12th October 2022 0 Comments

This book has been co-authored by Jennifer White, Ian Marsh, Michael J. Kral, and Jonathan Morris. The publishers say: “In Critical Suicidology, a team of international scholars, practitioners, and people directly affected by suicide argue that the field of suicidology has…
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biomedical model, books, Ian Marsh, Jennifer White, Jonathan Morris, Michael J. Kral, Research, suicide, suicide prevention, suicidology

Effects of biological explanations for mental disorders on clinicians’ empathy

Author: Editorial 6th October 2022 0 Comments

This study by Matthew S Lebowitz and Woo-kyoung Ahn has been published on the PubMed website. The abstract says: “Mental disorders are increasingly understood in terms of biological mechanisms. We examined how such biological explanations of patients’ symptoms would affect mental…
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biological explanations, biomedical model, dehumanisation, dehumanization, empathy, essentialism, Matthew S Lebowitz, PubMed, Woo-kyoung Ahn

Psychiatry beyond the current paradigm

Author: Editorial 10th August 2022 0 Comments

This article – by several co-authors – was published in The British Journal of Psychiatry 2012. The summary says: “A series of editorials in this Journal have argued that psychiatry is in the midst of a crisis. The various solutions proposed…
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biomedical model, neuroscience, psychiatry, technological paradigm

Twenty Billion Fails to “Move the Needle” on Mental Illness

Author: Editorial 21st February 2022 0 Comments

This report by Dr. Gregg Henriques has been published in Psychology Today. It begins: “ Former NIMH head Thomas Insel recently made a remarkable concession . He acknowledged that the biomedical framework he adopted while directing $20 billion dollars in NIMH research funds failed to “move the needle” in improving the lives of the millions…
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biomedical model, Genetics, Gregg Henriques, neuroscience, Psychology Today, Research, Thomas Insel

World needs “revolution” in mental health care – UN rights expert

Author: Editorial 17th January 2022 0 Comments

This news item comes from the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner. It begins: “GENEVA (6 June 2017) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Dainius Pūras, has called for a sea change in mental…
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biomedical model, Dainius Pūras, psychiatry, UN Human Rights Council, United Nations, United Nations Special Rapporteur