tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18614557.post7055111112681298259..comments2024-03-20T07:22:58.096+00:00Comments on Relational psychiatry: Political nature of psychiatryDBDoublehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16140020984190294123noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18614557.post-85864380600304441182011-05-26T19:12:38.935+01:002011-05-26T19:12:38.935+01:00Also valuable I think would be a specific descript...Also valuable I think would be a specific description of how behaviors and/or symptoms can be politicized in the Western context—it's always easier to point out flaws in someone else's system, but how about, for example, cultural pressure(s) to product and consume constantly, in order to support an economy which overemphasizes materialist goals (and underemphasizes more humanistic ones)?Oliverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16553105730593842429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18614557.post-16497233210399284772011-03-30T18:42:01.363+01:002011-03-30T18:42:01.363+01:00IMO, labeling a person's emotions, thoughts, a...IMO, labeling a person's emotions, thoughts, and reactions symptoms of an illness always is political.Marianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16273435151682585281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18614557.post-28796617120834335012011-03-28T16:58:28.576+01:002011-03-28T16:58:28.576+01:00While not minimizing the abuse of psychiatry in th...While not minimizing the abuse of psychiatry in this way in the former Soviet Union it should also be noted that only a small minority of psychiatric patients there were institutionalized on political grounds (around 15% IIRC), and only at one particularly large hospital allegedly (Serbsky in Moscow).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18614557.post-1840696221124747802011-03-24T15:23:50.875+00:002011-03-24T15:23:50.875+00:00Sirs,
Please have a look at this link.
PJSirs,<br />Please have a look at this <a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/diagnostics/the-psychiatrist-in-the-machine#" rel="nofollow">link</a>.<br />PJPeter Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03192918305428815983noreply@blogger.com