I agree-biomedicalization has been an inter-disciplinary enterprise. In the UK and Holland it has been driven actually by clinical psychology (my profession) and the catastrophe of the Gender Identity Development Service at the Tavistock Clinic in London was led by psychologists not psychiatrists. The discussion here though is broadly in…
I agree-biomedicalization has been an inter-disciplinary enterprise. In the UK and Holland it has been driven actually by clinical psychology (my profession) and the catastrophe of the Gender Identity Development Service at the Tavistock Clinic in London was led by psychologists not psychiatrists. The discussion here though is broadly in agreement that functional psychiatric diagnoses are all logically flawed and that psychiatry has had it fair share of 'great and desperate cures' (from John Bunyan on medical arrogance) from ECT and psychosurgery to anti-depressants and major tranquillizers.
I agree-biomedicalization has been an inter-disciplinary enterprise. In the UK and Holland it has been driven actually by clinical psychology (my profession) and the catastrophe of the Gender Identity Development Service at the Tavistock Clinic in London was led by psychologists not psychiatrists. The discussion here though is broadly in agreement that functional psychiatric diagnoses are all logically flawed and that psychiatry has had it fair share of 'great and desperate cures' (from John Bunyan on medical arrogance) from ECT and psychosurgery to anti-depressants and major tranquillizers.