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A Prescription for PsychiatryGet the Message Right: A Psychosocial Model of Mental Health and Well-being

A Prescription for Psychiatry: Get the Message Right: A Psychosocial Model of Mental Health and... [Psychiatry is a specialty within medicine, and medical thinking shapes many people’s understanding of the nature and causes of psychological distress, and of what constitutes appropriate care. We talk of being ‘ill’, of taking ‘sick leave’ from work, of retiring ‘on ill-health grounds’, of ‘diagnosis’ and of ‘treatment’. Diagnostic manuals are based on the assumption that distress can be diagnosed like any other, physical, illness. Researchers study the ‘aetiology’, or causation, of problems that are assumed to be illnesses ‘like any other’. We have become so used to thinking of psychological distress as a branch of medicine that we are in danger of no longer really challenging this assumption. But we need to start thinking differently. Real positive progress may only be possible when we realise that we are discussing a psychological and social phenomenon, not a medical one.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Prescription for PsychiatryGet the Message Right: A Psychosocial Model of Mental Health and Well-being

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
ISBN
978-1-137-40870-9
Pages
30 –47
DOI
10.1057/9781137408716_2
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Abstract

[Psychiatry is a specialty within medicine, and medical thinking shapes many people’s understanding of the nature and causes of psychological distress, and of what constitutes appropriate care. We talk of being ‘ill’, of taking ‘sick leave’ from work, of retiring ‘on ill-health grounds’, of ‘diagnosis’ and of ‘treatment’. Diagnostic manuals are based on the assumption that distress can be diagnosed like any other, physical, illness. Researchers study the ‘aetiology’, or causation, of problems that are assumed to be illnesses ‘like any other’. We have become so used to thinking of psychological distress as a branch of medicine that we are in danger of no longer really challenging this assumption. But we need to start thinking differently. Real positive progress may only be possible when we realise that we are discussing a psychological and social phenomenon, not a medical one.]

Published: Oct 24, 2015

Keywords: Mental Health; Psychological Distress; Mental Health Problem; Cognitive Behavioural Therapy; Disease Model

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