iatrogenesis

The one book that everybody in health care ought to read

Author: Editorial 26th June 2023 0 Comments

This review concerns a book – Limits to Medicine: the Expropriation of Health, by Ivan Illich – that has relevance to both physical and mental healthcare. The review is 20+ years old and comes from Dr. Richard Smith (who was then…
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a coherent system

books, iatrogenesis, Ivan Illich, medicalisation, Richard Smith

Psychiatrogenesis (Whither Psychiatry or Reform)

Author: Editorial 5th May 2023 0 Comments

This article by T.N. Tampiyappa has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “Having worked in multiple public services in the UK and Australia over the last 27 years, the constant personal struggle has been, ‘Am I doing more harm…
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a coherent system

diagnostic labelling, iatrogenesis, Mad in America, medical model, nocebo, Psychiatrogenesis, psychiatry, T.N. Tampiyappa

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