Niall McLaren on Critical Psychiatry

On Urban Myths

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Niall McLaren
May 14, 2024
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I will be giving a talk on Zoom later this week, on the topic "Can there be a biological psychiatry?" My conclusion: No, there is not, never has been, and never will be, a formal explanatory model of mental disorder as the result of disordered biology. In my view, the belief that there can be such a model, that we should continue spending billions each …

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