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Anthropology and Medicine from the Bottom Up | Eric Reinhart, MD

The Doctor's Art

CHAPTER

The Importance of Community in Psychiatry

The goal of psychiatry, historically and institutionally, has been to produce functional beings. Psychoanalytic work gave me a different kind of set of tools and perspectives with which to engage with people around this. I think if we fail to align public health systems with the empowerment of each individual in the way that they desire, it will be felt as restrictive by most people. The aim is to maximize somebody's freedom and possibilities to realize their own desires,. And I think you can design public health systems to do this.

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