Postpsychiatry
Year: 2001
Type: article
Abstract: EDITOR-Bracken and Thomas have given a name to the dehumanising biological shibboleth of contemporary psychiatry."1Electronic responses serve more to make their case than to refute it: the biologically minded provide no evidence to support their rejection but simply state that Bracken and Thomas are wrong, and recycle misleading simplifications of earlier challenges to biopsychiatry (the misreading of Laing being a case in point).2To argue that sensitive cross cultural practice is "properly funded" psychiatry2 is, similarly, a form of intellectual appropriation analogous to the hijacking of Tuke-s "moral treatment" by the mad doctors of the 19th century.
Source: BMJ
Author: Christopher Bagley
Language: English
Topic: Mental Health and Psychiatry
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4298436337