Leaders of British academic social psychiatry argue in
BJPsych editorial that the rules regulating research and the dominant neurobiological paradigm may have stifled creativity. The new charity
MQ: Transforming Mental may need to take this perspective more on board. (Why's it called MQ?)
MQ stands for More Quackery. And that is no doubt what we will see given a quick read of their "research programme" which includes research into "bipolar disease and schizophrenia", two DSM labels these quacks seem to think refer to bona fide diseases.
ReplyDeleteMore Quackery, MQ. I seriously pity anyone dumb enough to flush their life down the toilet by specializing in psychiatry, you people could have done so much good with a medical degree, instead you chose to become quacks. So sad.
Did you see this recent article in Health Affairs? (Via a commenter on 1BOM.) I think it makes a similar argument that the social aspect of mental conditions is critical, and that how we define psychiatric conditions should not controlled by the APA.
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