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How I Woke up from Medication Spellbinding | An interview with Trudy S.
This video-interview is conducted by Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring (psychiatrist). A transcript of the interview is also available from the YouTube video address.
Researchers Call on Psychiatry to Abandon Biomedical Framework
How did mental health become so biomedical? The progressive erosion of social determinants in historical psychiatric admission registers
Toward a Change of Paradigm in Psychosis: A Contextual Phenomenological Approach
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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The importance of empathic listening for making meaning of distress
Psychiatry’s Cycle of Ignorance and Reinvention: An Interview with Owen Whooley
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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The Biases of Western Medicine | Gabor Maté, MD
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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Doctor knows best, poisoned chalices, and beings on drugs: Young people’s accounts of getting the diagnosis of bipolar disorder
Critical Suicidology: Transforming Suicide Research and Prevention for the 21st Century
