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Post by Admin on Oct 23, 2021 15:36:51 GMT
‘French Psychiatry Has Gone Downhill in Part Because of American Influence’ October 8, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/10/french-psychiatry-gone-downhill-part-american-influence/From France 24: “‘The state of French psychiatry is catastrophic,’ Marie-José Durieux, a children’s psychiatrist at a Paris hospital, says bluntly. It’s a diagnosis shared by many others in her profession, and one reason why the French government held a two-day conference on mental health and psychiatry this week with industry professionals (l’Assises de la santé mentale et de la psychiatrie) in an attempt to rejuvenate a failing branch of the French medical establishment. ‘Just 30 years ago, psychiatry was practised with a lot of interest and excitement,’ Durieux says. ‘We associated psychiatry with imaginative sciences like philosophy, psychoanalysis, sociology and literature, and we pushed the field further.’ Then the use of drugs was introduced in the sector. ‘They’ve brought with them undeniable progress, but medication alone is not enough to solve existential problems,’ she says. ‘In the 1980s, American ways of thinking and treatment methods were adopted in France. French psychiatry, which was world-renowned, innovative and pioneering, started little by little to go downhill because of America’s influence . . . Human beings are born with a search for meaning that can’t be suppressed by an injection of antipsychotic drugs or a few anti-depressants,’ Durieux declares.” www.france24.com/en/france/20211003-french-psychiatry-has-gone-downhill-in-part-because-of-american-influence
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Post by Admin on Oct 27, 2021 18:18:20 GMT
Hans Skott-Myhre is a Professor of Human Services at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. Over the last 50 years, he has worked within a wide variety of human service settings, including residential homes, community health centers, inpatient psychiatric units, homeless youth shelters, transitional living programs, and prisons. About two decades ago, he transitioned into academia, where he now does research at the intersections of human services, psychology, cultural theory, and literature. His recently published book titled “Post-Capitalist Subjectivity in Literature and Anti-Psychiatry: Reconceptualizing the Self Beyond Capitalism” explored how we might be different types of people if we didn’t live in a capitalist society. The book draws on Marxist and post-Marxist theory and presents a nuanced analysis of antipsychiatrists’ professional writings, including Franco Basaglia and R. D. Laing, as well as the work of fiction writers, including Franz Kafka and Gabriel García Márquez. Through this analysis, Skott-Myhre identifies alternative conceptualizations of self and community that take us beyond capitalist subjectivity. www.madinamerica.com/2021/10/can-critiques-psychiatry-help-us-imagine-post-capitalist-future-interview-hans-skott-myhre/
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Post by Admin on Oct 27, 2021 18:28:30 GMT
MIA Science News Podcast: This week, we cover a study that found prolactin-increasing antipsychotics associated with increased breast cancer risk, an analysis that found no convincing evidence that screening for depression improves outcomes, and the continuing controversy around the FDA's approval of Biogen's failed Alzheimer's drug aducanumab. pod.link/1561485471/episode/abaae5a8db2ac2b56867eb1c9a39a822
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Post by Admin on Nov 1, 2021 10:32:45 GMT
Around the Web, from Ms. Magazine: “Dorothea Buck would be extraordinary by any means after reinventing her life after the horror of Nazi sterilization. She was also a visionary, a psychiatric patient who called on the profession to put her and people like her at the center of its practice, as the authorities in their own lives. She asked psychiatry to rethink its present in light of its darkest past. Buck received some accolades: the German government gave her an Order of Merit, and a small 2009 documentary, 'The Sky and Beyond,' focused on her life and her sculpture. But Buck’s beliefs about the fundamental nature of psychosis and her call for change have never come close to the mainstream of psychiatric practice. If anything, psychiatry has gone in the opposite direction, with each new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, psychiatry’s 'Bible,' constantly adding dozens of new categories. Few people in the profession know who Dorothea Buck is; her work is rarely taught in medical schools. And the great majority of Buck’s media attention came through her October 2019 obituaries, focused as much on her age as her activism. Sadly, Buck herself would not be surprised. In 2007, she was invited to address the annual meeting of the World Psychiatric Association. She denounced psychiatry’s reliance on Kraepelin and his hierarchies of ‘disease.’ Few psychiatrists, she told her audience, have made any effort to use the trialogue model. And as to psychiatry’s past [and present], she put it this way: ‘It is mostly up to us users and survivors to preserve the memory of those murdered in the name of psychiatry in our hearts.'” Remembering Dorothea Buck—Who Forced Psychiatry To Confront Its Deadly History www.madinamerica.com/2021/10/remembering-dorothea-buck-forced-psychiatry-confront-deadly-history/msmagazine.com/2021/10/21/dorothea-buck-psychiatry-mental-health-women-forced-sterilization/
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Post by Admin on Nov 2, 2021 15:16:29 GMT
A new study explored the assumption that promoting mental health literacy reduces stigma toward people with mental health diagnoses. Carolin M. Doll and colleagues found that mental health literacy was not related to stigma, countering the logic underlying many anti-stigma campaigns. However, understanding distress as caused by psychosocial causes effectively reduced the perceived danger of, and wish to socially distance from, psychiatric patients. In their recent paper, published in Community Mental Health Journal, Doll and team wrote: “Awareness campaigns that, next to biological causes, emphasize psychosocial causes of mental disorders might better reduce stigmatization.” Mental Health Literacy Does Not Reduce Stigma, Psychosocial Approaches More Promising Psychosocial explanations of distress reduce stigma for people with mental disorders, whereas biogenetic explanations do not. By Zenobia Morrill -November 2, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/11/mental-health-literacy-not-reduce-stigma-psychosocial-approaches-promising/Original Paper Open Access Published: 26 May 2021 The Important Role of Stereotypes in the relation between Mental Health Literacy and Stigmatization of Depression and Psychosis in the Community Carolin M. Doll, Chantal Michel, Linda T. Betz, Benno G. Schimmelmann & Frauke Schultze-Lutter Community Mental Health Journal (2021) link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10597-021-00842-5Abstract Increased mental health literacy (MHL) has not reduced stigmatization of people with mental disorder. Thus, we examined the role of stereotypes in the interplay of MHL (correct labelling, causal explanations) and the wish for social distance (WSD) from people with depressive and psychotic symptoms in a community sample of 1526 German-speaking participants in the Swiss ‘Bern Epidemiological At-Risk’ study (age 16–40 years; response rate: 60.1%). Following the presentation of an unlabelled case vignette of depression or psychosis, MHL, stereotypes and WSD were assessed in a questionnaire survey. Their interrelations were studied using structural equation modelling. MHL was not directly linked to WSD, only the psychosocial causal model was directly negatively associated with WSD. Perceived dangerousness particularly increased WSD, this was increased by a biogenetic causal model and decreased by a psychosocial causal model. Awareness-campaigns that, next to biological causes, emphasize psychosocial causes of mental disorders might better reduce stigmatization.
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Post by Admin on Nov 2, 2021 17:54:24 GMT
Christine Burnett: We are bombarded by public health notices that tell us “Mental health help is available; you just need to ask for it.” Yet many people don’t. I was one of them. Why? Because I didn’t feel the current understanding of psychiatric problems and treatment would help. In fact, I felt it would be a hindrance to recovery. Research on mental health looks for abnormalities in the individual to understand why mental health problems develop. But what if there isn’t an abnormality to be found? What if we just need to understand how the mind functions to know why psychological problems develop? My lived experience has led me to believe just that. Why Not Seek Treatment Through the Mental Health System? By Christine Burnett -November 2, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/11/why-not-seek-treatment/
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Post by Admin on Nov 5, 2021 14:49:36 GMT
A new article, published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, considers the applicability of the concept of epistemic injustice to clinical encounters in which mental health service users’ testimony is assumed to lack credibility. The article critiques the current literature’s fixation on (possible) cases of epistemic injustice concerning service users in the midst of delusional episodes while affirming the concept’s potential value for other clinical mental health encounters, particularly those involving children and young people. Additionally, the article questions the necessity of prejudice for determining whether testimonial injustice has occurred, differentiating between the imperatives to “listen to” versus “believe in” testimonial claims in the context of clinical encounters. “Service users describe bad relationships with psychiatrists as ‘paternalistic and disrespectful’… Conversely, service users value psychiatrists who have ‘the personal touch’; they wish to be ‘treated as whole human beings,’ and ‘acknowledged and respected,'” writes Edward Harcourt, a member of the philosophy faculty at the University of Oxford. Epistemic Injustice in Clinical Mental Health Encounters A new article evaluates claims of epistemic injustice in mental healthcare with people experiencing delusions and with young people. By Ben Goldstein -November 5, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/11/epistemic-injustice-clinical-mental-health-encounters/Feature article Epistemic injustice, children and mental illness FREE jme.bmj.com/content/47/11/729orcid.org/0000-0002-7176-226XEdward Harcourt Correspondence to Professor Edward Harcourt, Philosophy, University of Oxford Humanities Division, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK; edward.harcourt@philosophy.ox.ac.uk Abstract The concept of epistemic (specifically testimonial) injustice is the latest philosophical tool with which to try to theorise what goes wrong when mental health service users are not listened to by clinicians, and what goes right when they are. Is the tool adequate to the task? It is argued that, to be applicable at all, the concept needs some adjustment so that being disbelieved as a result of prejudice is one of a family of alternative necessary conditions for its application, rather than a necessary condition all on its own. It is then argued that even once adjusted in this way, the concept does not fit well in the area where the biggest efforts have been made to apply it so far, namely the highly sensitive case of adult patients suffering from delusions. Indeed it does not serve the interests of service users struggling for recognition to try to apply it in this context, because there is so much more to being listened to than simply being believed. However, the concept is found to apply smoothly in many cases where the service users are children, for example, in relation to children’s testimony on the efficacy of treatment. It is suggested that further research would demonstrate the usefulness of the concept in adult cases of a similar kind.
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Post by Admin on Nov 5, 2021 20:57:33 GMT
Around the Web, from The American Psychological Association: “As part of the nation’s historic reckoning on racism, the American Psychological Association has apologized to communities of color for its role—and the role of the discipline of psychology—in contributing to systemic racism. The association’s governing Council of Representatives adopted an apology at its meeting Oct. 29, acknowledging that APA ‘failed in its role leading the discipline of psychology, was complicit in contributing to systemic inequities, and hurt many through racism, racial discrimination, and denigration of communities of color, thereby falling short on its mission to benefit society and improve lives.’ ‘APA is profoundly sorry, accepts responsibility for, and owns the actions and inactions of APA itself, the discipline of psychology, and individual psychologists who stood as leaders for the organization and field,’ the apology states. The resolution, which passed unanimously, acknowledges that ‘the governing body within APA should have apologized to people of color before today. APA, and many in psychology, have long considered such an apology, but failed to accept responsibility.’ The apology credits a broad cross-section of APA’s members, including elected and appointed leaders, for bringing the apology to communities of color to fruition. The effort included soliciting public comments and conducting listening sessions and surveys. The work was spearheaded by the APA Task Force on Strategies to Eradicate Racism, Discrimination, and Hate and its five-member Apology Advisory Subcommittee, composed of eminent psychologists who were chosen for their knowledge and expertise.” APA Apologizes for Longstanding Contributions to Systemic Racism & Human Hierarchy November 5, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/11/apology-people-color-apas-role-racism-human-hierarchy/Date created: October 29, 2021 APA apologizes for longstanding contributions to systemic racism Acknowledges failures, accepts responsibility, pledges change for psychology WASHINGTON — As part of the nation’s historic reckoning on racism, the American Psychological Association has apologized to communities of color for its role—and the role of the discipline of psychology—in contributing to systemic racism. www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2021/10/apology-systemic-racismApology to People of Color for APA’s Role in Promoting, Perpetuating, and Failing to Challenge Racism, Racial Discrimination, and Human Hierarchy in U.S. Resolution adopted by the APA Council of Representatives on October 29, 2021 www.apa.org/about/policy/racism-apology
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Post by Admin on Nov 10, 2021 11:36:54 GMT
Why We Need a ‘Syndemic’ Framework to Study Psychosis Approaching psychosis as emerging from a syndemic of multiple adversities has important implications for health policy. By Jenny Logan -November 4, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/11/need-study-psychosis-syndemic/Is psychosis a syndemic manifestation of historical and contemporary adversity? Findings from UK Biobank Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2021 www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/is-psychosis-a-syndemic-manifestation-of-historical-and-contemporary-adversity-findings-from-uk-biobank/B5F0AC3458907851F9CA8F7F2EC92D5FExperiences of Prejudice and Discrimination in Mental Healthcare Researchers examine the many ways that people experience prejudice and discrimination in mental healthcare. By Richard Sears -November 10, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/11/experiences-prejudice-discrimination-mental-healthcare/Mental Health Prejudice, Discrimination and Epistemic Injustice: Moving beyond Stigma and Biomedical Dominance Book chapter Harper, D. and Vakili, K. 2021. Mental Health Prejudice, Discrimination and Epistemic Injustice: Moving beyond Stigma and Biomedical Dominance. in: Tileaga, C., Augoustinos, M. and Durrheim, K. (ed.) Routledge International Handbook of Discrimination, Prejudice, and Stereotyping Routledge. repository.uel.ac.uk/item/88w8wRenee Schuls-Jacobson – Psychiatrized: Waking up After a Decade of Bad Medicine By James Moore -November 10, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/11/renee-schuls-jacobson-psychiatrized-waking-up-after-decade-bad-medicine/Antipsychotics for Poor Kids Soar, Mostly for Behavior Problems By Kermit Cole -March 15, 2013 www.madinamerica.com/2013/03/antipsychotics-for-poor-children-soar-mostly-for-behavior-problems/Antipsychotic Use by Medicaid-Insured Youths: Impact of Eligibility and Psychiatric Diagnosis Across a Decade Julie Magno Zito, Ph.D., Mehmet Burcu, M.S., Aloysius Ibe, Dr.P.H., Daniel J. Safer, M.D., and Laurence S. Magder, Ph.D. Published Online:1 Mar 2013https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201200081 ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ps.201200081
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Post by Admin on Nov 19, 2021 12:47:30 GMT
Indigenous Healing Poses a Challenge and Opportunity for Global Mental Health Similarities in the therapeutic process may reconcile apparent differences between Global Mental Health and indigenous healing practices. By Samantha Lilly -November 19, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/11/indigenous-healing-poses-challenge-opportunity-global-mental-health/The Challenge of Indigenous Healing for Global Mental Health journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13634615211038167Abstract Psychiatry and anthropology have a long relationship, and it is worth examining aspects of how that relation is carried over into the developing field of Global Mental Health (GMH). One place at which the two disciplines overlap significantly is in addressing religious phenomena and ritual performance in relation to mental health, and one of the greatest challenges for GMH is how productively to take into account forms of indigenous healing based on religion and ritual. In this paper I compare recent texts in GMH written from the standpoint of psychiatry and anthropology, observing that the psychiatric texts emphasize evidence-based determination of treatment efficacy, while the anthropological texts emphasize ethnographic understanding of treatment experience. Reconciling these two emphases constitutes a challenge to the field, attending to contextual variations in treatment events, illness episodes, phenomenological factors both endogenous and intersubjective, and sociopolitical factors both interpersonal and structural. In addressing this challenge, I propose an approach to therapeutic process that on the empirical level can facilitate comparison across the diversity of healing forms, and on the conceptual level can constitute a bridge between efficacy and experience. This approach is predicated on a rhetorical model of therapeutic process including components of disposition, experience of the sacred, elaboration of alternatives, and actualization of change that highlights experiential specificity and incremental change. Deploying this model can help meet the challenge of understanding efficacy and experience in indigenous healing, and prepare the ground for the further challenge of how practitioners of GMH relate to and interact with such forms of healing.
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Post by Admin on Nov 22, 2021 14:06:17 GMT
A new article, published in the journal Philosophical Psychology, explores the pressure placed on mental health clinicians to diagnose children and the false-positive diagnoses that can arise from that pressure. The benefits and negative consequences of mental health diagnosis are highlighted, categorical versus dimensional approaches to diagnosis are explored, and an approach to diagnosis that allows for more movement between the two approaches is offered as a future direction. The author, philosopher Agnes Tellings, of the Department of Social Sciences at Radboud University, writes: “Most mental health professionals involved in diagnosing and treating children will sometimes experience pressure – exerted by people in the context of the child – to make a (particular) diagnosis even when the professional is reluctant to make that diagnosis because she thinks it might be unwarranted: teachers ask for ADHD-medicine for pupils so they will show less disruptive behavior in the classroom; parents ask for a dyslexia diagnosis for their daughter, so she gets extra time when doing exams. Professionals themselves also sometimes feel the need to make a diagnosis for which not all criteria are satisfied because the diagnosis will give the child access to help.” www.madinamerica.com/2021/11/philosophically-informed-approaches-to-mental-health-can-limit-overdiagnosis-of-children/Articles Diagnosis pressure and false positives: Toward a non-reductionist, polytomic approach of child mental problems Agnes Tellings Pages 86-101 | Received 18 Feb 2018, Accepted 21 Feb 2019, Published online: 04 Dec 2019 Download citation doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2019.1698021www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09515089.2019.1698021
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Post by Admin on Nov 22, 2021 14:12:59 GMT
How Western Psychology Can Rip Indigenous Families Apart: An Interview with Elisa Lacerda-Vandenborn By Ayurdhi Dhar, PhD -November 17, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/11/an-interview-with-elisa-lacerda-vandenborn/“Grave Disability” and the Path Between Prison and Involuntary Psychiatric Care Are more screenings for ‘grave disability’ and involuntary psychiatric treatment really a solution for US jails and prisons? By Madison Natarajan, MS -November 16, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/11/grave-disability-path-prison-involuntary-psychiatric-care/Punching, Predators, Neglect: Traumatized NC Children Suffer Inside Dismal Psychiatric Centers www.madinamerica.com/2021/11/punching-predators-neglect-traumatized-nc-children-suffer-dismal-psych-centers/Art, Music, Exercise, and More: What Are the Recommended Doses for Improving Mental Health? By Amy Biancolli -November 13, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/11/recommended-doses-art-music-exercise/Tower of Babel: The Meaning and Purpose of Voicehearing and Psychosis By Eric Coates -November 19, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/11/tower-babel-voicehearing-psychosis/ADHD as Cargo Cult Science www.madinamerica.com/2021/11/adhd-as-cargo-cult-science/“For Life”: New Opera Tells the Stories of Those Harmed by Psychiatric Drugs www.madinamerica.com/2021/11/for-life-new-opera/Emotional Contagion Spreads Madness—What Can We Do About It? www.madinamerica.com/2021/11/emotional-contagion-spreads-madness/
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Post by Admin on Nov 22, 2021 14:15:51 GMT
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Post by Admin on Dec 13, 2021 14:31:14 GMT
Kenneth Kendler: “Implausible” That Psychiatric Diagnoses Even “Approximately True” In JAMA psychiatry, prominent psychiatrist Kenneth Kendler writes that psychiatric diagnoses are “working hypotheses, subject to change.” By Peter Simons -December 13, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/12/kenneth-kendler-implausible-psychiatric-diagnoses-even-approximately-true/Inside A Forensic Psychiatry Unit: Here’s How to Survive The first in a series by Sean Gunderson, who spent 17 years as a forensic inmate. By Sean Gunderson -December 4, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/12/inside-forensic-psych-survive/Emotional CPR: Heart-Centered Peer Support By Miranda Spencer -November 24, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/11/emotional-cpr-heart-centered-peer-support/How Western Psychology Can Rip Indigenous Families Apart: An Interview with Elisa Lacerda-Vandenborn By Ayurdhi Dhar, PhD -November 17, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/11/an-interview-with-elisa-lacerda-vandenborn/Adverse Childhood Experiences Associated with Higher Anxiety in College Students Researchers find that students who report ACEs are more likely to report higher anxiety and worse mental health. www.madinamerica.com/2021/12/adverse-childhood-experiences-associated-higher-anxiety-college-students/What Role can the United Nations Play in Rights-Based Global Mental Health? Scholars explore the role of the United Nations in shaping global mental health priorities. www.madinamerica.com/2021/12/role-can-united-nations-play-rights-based-global-mental-health/Qualitative Evidence Supports the Ban on Conversion Therapy in Canada Qualitative research offers insight into the detrimental impacts of conversion therapy on LGBTQ+ and two-spirit individuals. By Chia Po Cheng -December 8, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/12/qualitative-evidence-supports-ban-conversion-therapy-canada/Mental Health Care Must Support Consent and Basic Human Rights Coercion and involuntary treatment of mental health patients in Europe must be seriously re-evaluated. By Laura Marchetti -December 11, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/12/mental-health-care-consent-human-rights/No More Tears: In Memory of Kathleen Fliller By Lisa Hughes -December 10, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/12/no-more-tears-in-memory-of-kathleen-fliller/When It Comes to Mental Health Problems, The Disability Framework Fails By Chuck Ruby, PhD -December 8, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/12/disability-framework-fails/Institutionalized 18 Years Ago, I May Never Be Released By William A. Sutherland -December 7, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/12/institutionalized-18-years-ago-i-may-never-be-released/Cultural Trauma as a Driver of Health Disparities The cultural trauma of marginalized groups blocks access to resources and causes deep psychological and physical injuries. By Micah Ingle, MA -November 25, 2021 www.madinamerica.com/2021/11/cultural-trauma-driver-health-disparities/
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Post by Admin on Jan 5, 2022 17:42:07 GMT
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