The limits of psychiatry

Summary points Expectations of solutions to mental health problems continue to rise This raises the question of the legitimacy of psychiatric interventions for common personal and social problems Much of the expansion of psychiatry has been based on a biomedical model This approach encourages drug t...

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Published in:BMJ 2002-04, Vol.324 (7342), p.900-904
Main Author: Double, Duncan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Addictive behaviors
Alcohol related disorders
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Behavior
Behavioral neuroscience
Biological and medical sciences
Biological psychiatry
Clinical medicine
Community psychiatry
Criticism
Education And Debate
Humans
Medical practice
Medical sciences
Medicine
Mental disorders
Mental Disorders - diagnosis
Mental Disorders - therapy
Mental health
Mental health care
Mental Health Services - trends
Mental illness
Military psychiatry
National libraries
Organization of mental health. Health systems
Patient Satisfaction
Power, Psychological
Psychiatric diagnosis
Psychiatrists
Psychiatry
Psychiatry - methods
Psychiatry - standards
Psychiatry - trends
Psychobiology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Punishment
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
Social psychology
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Summary:Summary points Expectations of solutions to mental health problems continue to rise This raises the question of the legitimacy of psychiatric interventions for common personal and social problems Much of the expansion of psychiatry has been based on a biomedical model This approach encourages drug treatment to be seen as a panacea for multiple problems Refocusing psychiatry on the patient as a person emphasises the uncertainty of psychiatric practice Growth in mental health service activity and technology Despite the reduction in psychiatric beds in England over recent years ( fig 1 ), mental health service activity has increased considerably. Anti-psychiatry may have failed because its main proponents were ultimately more interested in personal and spiritual growth. [...]its message became diluted and confused by combining conflicting viewpoints.
ISSN:0959-8138
0959-8146
1468-5833
1756-1833
DOI:10.1136/bmj.324.7342.900