"The Web of Meaning": Family Therapy is Social Psychiatry's Therapeutic Branch
What are the links between social psychiatry and the family therapy movement?
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What are the links between social psychiatry and the family therapy movement?
In an article defending antipsychotics, psychiatry reveals that it can't be trusted to assess its own evidence.
The patient is talking, if sometimes more or less metaphorically, about real experiences. Hallucinations and delusions are not meaningless.
The figure of the isolated psychiatrist is in question, as is the treatment of mental disorders only with pills. Meanwhile, a multidisciplinary and psychological approach is gaining ground
Psychiatrist Paulo Amarante writes of Fernando Freitas and his fight against psychiatry's pathologization of life.