Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Profile of a postpsychiatrist

Profile of Pat Bracken in Irish Times. Pat wrote Postpsychiatry with Phil Thomas. Postpsychiatry is one form of critical psychiatry.

I've always said that critical psychiatry can be understood without postmodernism. The split between biomedical and biopsychological approaches goes back to before the 1960s. The theoretical views of Adolf Meyer about the nature of mental illness are no different from those of critical psychiatry (eg. see my article).

My attempt to gain a profile for critical psychiatry was published in THES.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

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Source: DesignNews.com

CarloDJ

Anonymous said...

that's a scary thought

Kimani said...

Pills may soon include more than just medication. The Food and Drug Administration recently approved an ingestible sensor that can be integrated into tablets to help people keep track of when they take their medicine. Pharmaceutical makers can begin using the Ingestion Event Marker (IEM) from Pro... Digital Health as part of a system that helps people monitor their health electronically. The silicon sensor, which can be inserted into pills, communicates with a patch on the skin to log the time medication is taken. "People live busy and complex lives and, as a result, often don't take their medicines correctly and thus don't benefit from their medicines as much as they could," Ge... Sav..., cofounder and chief medical officer of Pro... Digital Health, told us. "We wanted to develop a solution that would help make existing medicines more effective in real life, so people get better faster, and the industry has access to new information-based business models." Source: DesignNews.com CarloDJ