Niall McLaren on Critical Psychiatry

Is That All There Is To Psychiatry?

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Niall McLaren
Jul 16, 2024
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A reader somewhere in the US, who has a long history of contact with psychiatry, asked:

  • … I want to know, what a psychiatrist is thinking when they put people on drugs … why do psychiatrists prescribe pharmaceutical drugs? What is going through their head when they do it? Does the average psychiatrist think to themselves “I want to drag this person throu…

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