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Critical psychiatry: an embarrassing hangover from the 1970s?

Critical psychiatry is associated with anti-psychiatry and may therefore seem to be an embarrassing hangover from the 1970s. However, its essential position that functional mental illness should not be reduced to brain disease overlaps with historical debates in psychiatry more than is commonly appr...

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Autor principal: Double, Duncan B.
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/PMC7684769/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32102716
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2020.5
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description Critical psychiatry is associated with anti-psychiatry and may therefore seem to be an embarrassing hangover from the 1970s. However, its essential position that functional mental illness should not be reduced to brain disease overlaps with historical debates in psychiatry more than is commonly appreciated. Three examples of non-reductive approaches, like critical psychiatry, in the history of psychiatry are considered.
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spelling pubmed-76847692020-12-04 Critical psychiatry: an embarrassing hangover from the 1970s? Double, Duncan B. BJPsych Bull Editorial Critical psychiatry is associated with anti-psychiatry and may therefore seem to be an embarrassing hangover from the 1970s. However, its essential position that functional mental illness should not be reduced to brain disease overlaps with historical debates in psychiatry more than is commonly appreciated. Three examples of non-reductive approaches, like critical psychiatry, in the history of psychiatry are considered. Cambridge University Press 2020-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7684769/ /pubmed/32102716 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2020.5 Text en © The Author 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7684769/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32102716
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