In addition to this article which I found after looking at [4} ,there are many others on this web site and elsewhere, which describe the crisis that Niall has identified. I have only scanned a few of this set of abstracts, but given the lack of both the validity and reliability of the DSM ( inter-operator concurrence of 23% was one conclusion I have seen), a rational starting point in any consultation would be to clarify for clients what not to expect. A psychiatrist worth their salt would not be afraid to share the things that are known not to be known, ( including BS about the role of genetics). It's telling that a sample of clinicians with lived experience in one of these studies didn't believe in a disease model of metal illness, in the way that a relatively small percentage of patients did.
Some of the paths included views that included the importance of a spiritual realm, which ventures into abstractions that some would regard as beyond conceptions of the mind, though in times gone by have been regarded as being of prime significance for mental well being.
(My own bias is that I am inclined to be cautious when engaging in work that requires me to suspend my critical judgement, which can be a requirement in such explorations)
In looking for evidence of biopsychosocial models, as Niall points out there isn't one as such. However the term potentially points to a plethora of interpretations of the significance of relevant factors that are external to the person.
and on You tube, provides another perspective . He makes some fascinating observations about psychoneuroimmunlogy research that deserves scrutiny. Other clinicians such as Dan Seigel and Steven Porges have also done pioneering work in this field. Their discoveries resonate with the lived experience community, hence provide a framework for lived experience epistomology. Instead of regarding "mental health" as merely "not disease" or casting people into a funk of symptoms to be managed, people can embark on a journey that asks what does health mean for me.
My understanding is that the brain is best thought of as another organ of the body rather than being regarded as discrete in any way. I was siting next to an OT at a meeting last week who thoroughly concurred, as does an exercise physiologist I know who self identifies as having ADHD.
I think that allied health generally is ready to shift. We just need to rewrite the Mental Health Act.
For an eloquent expression of lived experience, I think it is hard to beat this one
how on earth this self interested, massively harmful pseudoscience has been allowed to go on for as long as it has is shocking. yet it's highly profitable and useful for maintaining a disordered status quo.
My answer is: expose the mainstream for what it is, a pseudoscience just because of its failure to develop a model of mental disorder, of pretending that it has a "biomedical model" or a "biopsychosocial model" when, as a matter of demonstrated fact, it has neither. This is unprecedented in the history of modern science. The biocognitive model is intended to fill that gap but runs into massive resistance from the mainstream just because it is a primary psychological model, not "medical."
Take it from me, they don't accept criticism from anybody, which is another sign of pseudoscience. Critics are dismissed with the ad hominem attack "You're antipsychiatry," as though that had some meaning. It doesn't, it's an incantation to silence critics, as in "and we're not going to listen to anything you say." They ignore the content of the criticism and vilify the critic.
But, by knowing that they will react like that, and we know that they behave in a full Freudian trained manner, we know they will turn into the dead end street.
Meanwhile, it should be possible to find altrenative options for those who see the writing on the wall saying 'this is not a dead end street' yet need solutions.
As in non Freudian solutions.
Non conformative solutions that atually solve something.
Instead of solutions that numb the mind and create sheep that continue to walk into the meetgrinder.
Knowing about Bullshit while not having the means to avoid the bullshit is traumatic.
I lived that nightmare...
I see that nightmare in the works for the masses who are now being hypnotised.
I didnt drink the cool aid, but i was pushed into the machine. I refused, i fell out, but the machine completely outcast me.
That in itself is a real mind shredding experience.
Is this MK ultra? Or is it a gap in the Freudian MK shredder.
I dont know... it could be something else. It was and still is a horrible mess.
There it is what I try not to say... lol. Ok a fraction of it. Enough to show my viewing angle on the carnage.
For now i try to find information that is factual and debunks Freuds false assumptions. But thats not an easy path to travel. Specially with all the damage by the machine.
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Clinician-and-patient-perspectives-on-the-ontology-Kohne-Graauw/d9277fb69edccca11d3b3ee8ce2c12b45fd6e518
In addition to this article which I found after looking at [4} ,there are many others on this web site and elsewhere, which describe the crisis that Niall has identified. I have only scanned a few of this set of abstracts, but given the lack of both the validity and reliability of the DSM ( inter-operator concurrence of 23% was one conclusion I have seen), a rational starting point in any consultation would be to clarify for clients what not to expect. A psychiatrist worth their salt would not be afraid to share the things that are known not to be known, ( including BS about the role of genetics). It's telling that a sample of clinicians with lived experience in one of these studies didn't believe in a disease model of metal illness, in the way that a relatively small percentage of patients did.
For more on biocognitive models I looked up
https://www.dictai.org/w/biocognitive
Some of the paths included views that included the importance of a spiritual realm, which ventures into abstractions that some would regard as beyond conceptions of the mind, though in times gone by have been regarded as being of prime significance for mental well being.
(My own bias is that I am inclined to be cautious when engaging in work that requires me to suspend my critical judgement, which can be a requirement in such explorations)
In looking for evidence of biopsychosocial models, as Niall points out there isn't one as such. However the term potentially points to a plethora of interpretations of the significance of relevant factors that are external to the person.
Mario Martinez
https://www.amazon.com/The-Mind-Body-Code-audiobook/dp/B00350K93U
and on You tube, provides another perspective . He makes some fascinating observations about psychoneuroimmunlogy research that deserves scrutiny. Other clinicians such as Dan Seigel and Steven Porges have also done pioneering work in this field. Their discoveries resonate with the lived experience community, hence provide a framework for lived experience epistomology. Instead of regarding "mental health" as merely "not disease" or casting people into a funk of symptoms to be managed, people can embark on a journey that asks what does health mean for me.
My understanding is that the brain is best thought of as another organ of the body rather than being regarded as discrete in any way. I was siting next to an OT at a meeting last week who thoroughly concurred, as does an exercise physiologist I know who self identifies as having ADHD.
I think that allied health generally is ready to shift. We just need to rewrite the Mental Health Act.
For an eloquent expression of lived experience, I think it is hard to beat this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9r7FVJhH04
how on earth this self interested, massively harmful pseudoscience has been allowed to go on for as long as it has is shocking. yet it's highly profitable and useful for maintaining a disordered status quo.
Right, profitable and handy for disappearing pests.
We cant go back to DSM-II can we?
Most of Pharma would go out of buisiness in the anti depressant department, and that would drag down the entire pyramid.
But how to move forward?
How can people who see the problem disconnect from the mainstream?
People in general... not just those who work in the field but also those who require services.
Society is stuck in DSM-5.
My answer is: expose the mainstream for what it is, a pseudoscience just because of its failure to develop a model of mental disorder, of pretending that it has a "biomedical model" or a "biopsychosocial model" when, as a matter of demonstrated fact, it has neither. This is unprecedented in the history of modern science. The biocognitive model is intended to fill that gap but runs into massive resistance from the mainstream just because it is a primary psychological model, not "medical."
Right, not medical, so it cannot be 'medicated', or should I say pharmacies, as such.
But how to communicate a better path to people before they get sucked into the pharmacy?
As in bridging the gap, void, universe.
It will save lives. But if somone like me without wearing a labcoat says something they will not take it serious.
Take it from me, they don't accept criticism from anybody, which is another sign of pseudoscience. Critics are dismissed with the ad hominem attack "You're antipsychiatry," as though that had some meaning. It doesn't, it's an incantation to silence critics, as in "and we're not going to listen to anything you say." They ignore the content of the criticism and vilify the critic.
But, by knowing that they will react like that, and we know that they behave in a full Freudian trained manner, we know they will turn into the dead end street.
Meanwhile, it should be possible to find altrenative options for those who see the writing on the wall saying 'this is not a dead end street' yet need solutions.
As in non Freudian solutions.
Non conformative solutions that atually solve something.
Instead of solutions that numb the mind and create sheep that continue to walk into the meetgrinder.
Knowing about Bullshit while not having the means to avoid the bullshit is traumatic.
I lived that nightmare...
I see that nightmare in the works for the masses who are now being hypnotised.
I didnt drink the cool aid, but i was pushed into the machine. I refused, i fell out, but the machine completely outcast me.
That in itself is a real mind shredding experience.
Is this MK ultra? Or is it a gap in the Freudian MK shredder.
I dont know... it could be something else. It was and still is a horrible mess.
There it is what I try not to say... lol. Ok a fraction of it. Enough to show my viewing angle on the carnage.
For now i try to find information that is factual and debunks Freuds false assumptions. But thats not an easy path to travel. Specially with all the damage by the machine.