Niall McLaren on Critical Psychiatry

Here come the political scientists.

Cracks in psychiatry's walls.

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Niall McLaren
May 16, 2023
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I was sent a paper last week by, of all professions, a political scientist in South Dakota. Alex Roberts works on the phenomenon of "medicalisation of normal," the process by which normal variants of behaviour and mental life are labelled as "deviant/sick" by psychiatrists and turned into new medical "illnesses." What this means, of course, is that they…

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