Psychiatric Times December 2, 2024
Some of the things we do in the name of mental health will one day seem bizarre and barbaric to those who come after us…
AFFIRMING PSYCHIATRY
Mental Health: A Graveyard of Dumb Ideas
Admittedly, there are a lot of dumb ideas in mental health. I have thought of some of them myself. True, it is hard to top whoppers from the history of mental health like removing vital organs to try and cure mental illness,1 or injecting malaria into people with schizophrenia.2 But our own time has its share of bad ideas. Not to be outdone by our misguided forebears, recent years have seen our culture “treat” those with severe illness with jail time instead of hospital care, while at...
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