Psychiatric Times September 26, 2024
Psychiatrists and mental health clinicians: a social determinant of health.
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It seems to me that most of the time we forget that we are a major social determinant of mental health, besides always looking outward to social determinants. Yes, we are first trying to help treat mental disorders and enhance mental health, doing with the latter when we can.
After all, we not only want better mental health for our patients, but know that their improvement ripples out to the rest of loved ones and society. I had an early lesson about that when I was in medical school at Yale and challenged a prominent psychoanalyst, sort of demanding: “How could you spend so...
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