My favourite theme in this semester is the "Antipsychiatry", this theme was addressed in the trade "Teorías y Sistemas", the professor made a critical to the classic psychiatry for the form in that present to the persons with mental problems. The classic psychiatry comes from United States, is there where have been abused of patients with different methods, as electroshock, hard knocks, until the massive medications that today most people consume.
People become in addicted to drugs and these do not solve the underlying problem, only confront the symptoms, but not the causes. That´s the big problem, that psychiatrists trat to their patients without going to the real causes, that way there will never be cure for the sicks.
In classes we discussed why this is a problem in the modern world and we conclude that this is not ethically correct.
I am interested in this topic because I feel it is necessary to criticize the foundations. Even when it is working with the people.
I deeply believe that there are other methods to heal the mentally ills. Looking for causes and working from there.
I think “Antipsychiatry” is a necessary topic in this career, but I believe that sometimes it´s unclear.
ReplyDeleteFor example: On the book called “Una Nueva Antipsiquiatria” it´s mentioned that
antidepressive drugs are not effective when compared with placebos, this information is false. This happens with other theses of antipsychiatry too.
I am in a group oriented to antipsychiatry, if you want, you can join us
ReplyDeleteI love your post, i believe too in methods more humanitarian and not looking always for sick people, they are humans too :/
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