Mad in America

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The insistence on the redemptive qualities and widespread acceptance of the biopsychosocial model and psychiatric pluralism seem to fall into this domain, given that psychiatry has, in practice, remained dominated by biomedicine going under the guide of the biopsychosocial model —referred to by some as “ bio-bio-bio ” model of madness.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Neglecting Psychosocial and Cultural Context Despite touting the “biopsychosocial” model to our non-psychiatry colleagues, and despite this being another reason why less than ten minutes might suffice, we often exhibit a complete disregard for psychosocial aspects in diagnosis and treatment.

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Mad in America

MARCH 26, 2025

This model, which is known as the biopsychosocial model, is recognized all over the world. But I will tell you, when I first learned about this, I was thinking of writing a blog with the headline, Now We’re All Screwed because we’re going to lose this fountain of information. The problem is broader.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

As you know, I have a blog with Psychology Today that I use to explore what I see as a lot of different research programs in mental health that exemplify what I’m calling madness-as-strategy. I’ll talk to folks who say, “Look, psychiatry isn’t really using a medical model anymore, we’ve moved past that.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

You can’t have it both ways although, with their spurious biopsychosocial model and their eclectic psychiatry, they tried. Is mental disorder a genetic disturbance of brain function, or is it not?

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Mad in America

MAY 2, 2024

On the one hand, the biopsychosocial model is the most proliferated, which in theory acknowledges psychological and societal factors alongside biological ones, but slapping these three domains together within one model does little to elucidate the interplay between them.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In Part 1 , we discussed Mad in America, the biopsychosocial model and the history of psychiatry. That’s one of the reasons, by the way, that Mad in America has personal stories, and that we also have blogs talking about these initiatives such as respite houses.

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