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How to Understand Soaring Rates of Bipolar Disorder in Iran
Researchers find that the spread of Western psychiatric interventions and local structural factors are driving the soaring rates of Bipolar Spectrum Disorder in Iran.
Iran witnessed a dramatic growth in the diagnosis of Bipolar Spectrum Disorder (BSD) over the last few decades. This has been accompanied by a rise in the prescription of mood stabilizers and other drugs. A new study in Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry investigates the conditions underlying this rise in diagnosis and the accompanying controversies.
The researchers, Fahimeh Mianji and Laurence Kirmayer of the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University, interviewed Iranian psychiatrists about the trend. Most participants reported both overdiagnosis of BSD and over-prescription of mood stabilizers. The growing influence of Western Psychiatry, including Western classification systems, the power of prominent Western experts, and pharmaceutical industry involvement were some of the noted reasons for these changes.
More importantly, participants attributed the diagnostic increase to alliances between local health systems with powerful institutions, rapidly transitioning cultural norms, and Psychiatry’s shortcomings in working with socio-ecological issues.
www.madinamerica.com/2020/09/understand-soaring-rates-bipolar-iran/
The Globalization of Biological Psychiatry and the Rise of Bipolar Spectrum Disorder in Iran.
Mianji F1, Kirmayer LJ1
Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 01 Sep 2020, 44(3):404-432
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-019-09665-2 PMID: 31902051
www.madinamerica.com/2020/09/understand-soaring-rates-bipolar-iran/
Researchers find that the spread of Western psychiatric interventions and local structural factors are driving the soaring rates of Bipolar Spectrum Disorder in Iran.
Iran witnessed a dramatic growth in the diagnosis of Bipolar Spectrum Disorder (BSD) over the last few decades. This has been accompanied by a rise in the prescription of mood stabilizers and other drugs. A new study in Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry investigates the conditions underlying this rise in diagnosis and the accompanying controversies.
The researchers, Fahimeh Mianji and Laurence Kirmayer of the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University, interviewed Iranian psychiatrists about the trend. Most participants reported both overdiagnosis of BSD and over-prescription of mood stabilizers. The growing influence of Western Psychiatry, including Western classification systems, the power of prominent Western experts, and pharmaceutical industry involvement were some of the noted reasons for these changes.
More importantly, participants attributed the diagnostic increase to alliances between local health systems with powerful institutions, rapidly transitioning cultural norms, and Psychiatry’s shortcomings in working with socio-ecological issues.
www.madinamerica.com/2020/09/understand-soaring-rates-bipolar-iran/
The Globalization of Biological Psychiatry and the Rise of Bipolar Spectrum Disorder in Iran.
Mianji F1, Kirmayer LJ1
Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 01 Sep 2020, 44(3):404-432
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-019-09665-2 PMID: 31902051
www.madinamerica.com/2020/09/understand-soaring-rates-bipolar-iran/