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Global Psychiatry’s Attempt to Excommunicate the Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health

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Yet rather than engage with this, the authors strategically construct arguments as though they are unaware of any such issue. World Psychiatric Association/World Medical Association ) The binary structures deployed in these open letters are strategic.

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Chemically Imbalanced: Joanna Moncrieff on the Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth

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When were you in medical school in the UK, were they teaching the DSM III disease model, or did you hear a different story about what causes depression? Moncrieff: When I was in medical school we were taught, as we’re still officially taught now, the biopsychosocial model of mental disorders. Moncrieff: Yes.

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The Poetics and Politics of Our Mental Health Metaphors: An Interview with Laurence Kirmayer

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He has helped pioneer integrative approaches that unite phenomenology and neuroscience, including a biopsychosocial model grounded in enactive and embodied cognition , as well as a person-centered, ecosocial framework for understanding suffering beyond reductive biological paradigms.

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Dostoevsky: A Psychologist We Can All Learn From

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The biopsychosocial model of psychology as it is taught and practiced today, is stilled heavily influenced by the scope determined by Wundt. Psychology has become a giant, its terms and constructs now part of the cultural lexicon, and yet it is one with clay feet.