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1.1 The DSM and Critical Psychiatry

Psychiatry Boot Camp

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Common Criticisms of Psychiatry

Some of the criticisms we encounter in the public kind of border on stereotypes, that disorder concepts can only be understood as brain diseases or neuro neurological pathologies. I think many criticisms, for example, around the use of pharmacology,. There's a sentiment that psychiatrists have intentionally misled the public about the efficacy of these medications. And there's also the sense that when psychiatrists engage in involuntary care and voluntary treatment, that there's no clinical or scientific rationale behind that.

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