From patients to clients: the tragic business of mental health care explained [PODCAST]

KevinMD October 14, 2024
The Podcast by KevinMD

We sit down with Nicholas Rosenlicht, psychiatrist and author of My Brother’s Keeper: The Untold Stories Behind the Business of Mental Health―and How to Stop the Abandonment of the Mentally Ill. Nicholas unpacks the troubling shift from viewing individuals with mental health issues as “patients” to labeling them as “clients,” revealing how this change in language has eroded rights, altered care, and reframed the therapeutic relationship.

Nicholas Rosenlicht is a psychiatrist and author of My Brother’s Keeper: The Untold Stories Behind the Business of Mental Health―and How to Stop the Abandonment of the Mentally Ill.

He discusses the KevinMD article, “The dangerous shift in mental health: Are we clients or patients?”

Transcript

Kevin Pho: Hi, and welcome to the show....