In part 5 of the 1998 interview the role of drug companies on medical education and treatment is explored further, along with psychiatric criteria for the label of 'hypomania', 'delusions' and 'psychosis'.
Very interesting video. I think Dr Senewiratne makes some excellent points. As a social anthropologist I can't help agree that psychiatry is a 'worldview' to which young doctors are converted during their training, and in defense of which senior psychiatrists will brand objectors as mentally unwell - just as Christian fundamentalists will brand Christian objectors as possessed by the devil. What makes psychiatry worse is that it does this in the name of science......
Very interesting video. I think Dr Senewiratne makes some excellent points. As a social anthropologist I can't help agree that psychiatry is a 'worldview' to which young doctors are converted during their training, and in defense of which senior psychiatrists will brand objectors as mentally unwell - just as Christian fundamentalists will brand Christian objectors as possessed by the devil. What makes psychiatry worse is that it does this in the name of science......
scro0558 9 months ago 2