The place of free will and agency in psychiatric practice: Commentary on … William James and British thought: then and now

In psychiatric practice, professionals tend to split patients into those who are responsible for their actions, and those who are not. This approach does a disservice to both groups. Patients assumed to retain agency may be blamed, and those assumed to lack agency are disempowered. Professionals sho...

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Autor principal: Pearce, Steve
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7283129/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32223783
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2019.89
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description In psychiatric practice, professionals tend to split patients into those who are responsible for their actions, and those who are not. This approach does a disservice to both groups. Patients assumed to retain agency may be blamed, and those assumed to lack agency are disempowered. Professionals should adopt a more nuanced approach to agency and control, recognising that it is impaired in most psychiatric disorders, but absent in very few. This is possible without making stigma worse.
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spelling pubmed-72831292020-06-17 The place of free will and agency in psychiatric practice: Commentary on … William James and British thought: then and now Pearce, Steve BJPsych Bull Article Commentary In psychiatric practice, professionals tend to split patients into those who are responsible for their actions, and those who are not. This approach does a disservice to both groups. Patients assumed to retain agency may be blamed, and those assumed to lack agency are disempowered. Professionals should adopt a more nuanced approach to agency and control, recognising that it is impaired in most psychiatric disorders, but absent in very few. This is possible without making stigma worse. Cambridge University Press 2020-04 2020-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7283129/ /pubmed/32223783 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2019.89 Text en © The Author 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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