This article is about an anti psychiatric called Richard Bentall. This man has written a lot of books about psychiatry and the bad practices of this area. For example in one of him books discuss serious questions about the treatment of mental illness.
Bentall said that one sing of sanity in this society is the ability to deal with disagreements, it is a critic to the other professionals of mental illness how discuss all the time about his theories and doesn’t worries for the people who needs them.
Bentall’s thesis is that, the psychiatric and all the mental illness’s investigators search advances in the brain understanding and try to discover the better drug for the treatment. But the psychiatric do nothing for the human welfare.
Besides Bentall add the problem of diagnostic categories, he said that what are conventionally called psychiatric “symptoms” should be named “complaints”. An explanation for that critic is the notion of heritability, a theory about genetics bases of mental illness.
We know that Bentall is an anti psychiatrist, but want to do a distinction about being "anti-psychiatrist" and "anti-psychiatry", a common error in medicine. In spite of Bentall is not agreeing with the drugs treatment he recognizes that there are occasions where drugs are the only way for treat the mental disorder. He is open-minded about drug therapy, but it is not used as a panacea or a substitute for treatments that may produce happier outcomes. Also he is not agreeing with the alternative remedies.
The solution is using the interpersonal relationships like a concomitant treatment for the mental illness, not use only the drugs. He said that psychotherapy can help, because a person, unlike a drug, can learn to listen to other person.
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Bentall said that one sing of sanity in this society is the ability to deal with disagreements, it is a critic to the other professionals of mental illness how discuss all the time about his theories and doesn’t worries for the people who needs them.
Bentall’s thesis is that, the psychiatric and all the mental illness’s investigators search advances in the brain understanding and try to discover the better drug for the treatment. But the psychiatric do nothing for the human welfare.
Besides Bentall add the problem of diagnostic categories, he said that what are conventionally called psychiatric “symptoms” should be named “complaints”. An explanation for that critic is the notion of heritability, a theory about genetics bases of mental illness.
We know that Bentall is an anti psychiatrist, but want to do a distinction about being "anti-psychiatrist" and "anti-psychiatry", a common error in medicine. In spite of Bentall is not agreeing with the drugs treatment he recognizes that there are occasions where drugs are the only way for treat the mental disorder. He is open-minded about drug therapy, but it is not used as a panacea or a substitute for treatments that may produce happier outcomes. Also he is not agreeing with the alternative remedies.
The solution is using the interpersonal relationships like a concomitant treatment for the mental illness, not use only the drugs. He said that psychotherapy can help, because a person, unlike a drug, can learn to listen to other person.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jun/21/doctoring-the-mind-richard-bentall
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