A few years ago in the Unit States, for the production of a documentary on the uses and abuses of psychiatric micine, some pseudopatients – with a covert video camera – show us how, in response to the same complaint, they receiv different diagnoses and different prescriptions from different specialists consult. at the same time. That is to say, there was no agreement between what ail many of these people and without further examination than the so-call “clinical eye” (always subjective and somewhat myopic, it must be recogniz) these people receiv prescriptions with the authorization to take not one until four psychotropic drugs at the same time. Some propose that this experiment, along with other criticisms coming from the most avant-garde sectors of clinical psychology, psychiatry and sociology, accelerat the movement to reform psychiatric
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We remember films like Dead End, with Jack Nicholson, or The Substitute, with Angelina Jolie, to mention just two of many that have also portray how those b2b leads places creat to house, accompany, treat and ruce the emotional pain of their occupants were in fact us to control, violate, blackmail and even bankrupt people who perhaps did not deserve to be there. This article is not intend to discrit the clinical practice of a psychologist or a psychiatrist, nor to deny the existence of mental illness. Rather, it invites us to rethink how many stigmas we ourselves have in our heads,
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You will leave the office knowing now that you have a label and that it is not normal. And worst of all, perhaps it never will be. We finish with what David Rosenhan said in an interview after his experiment was made public: “I told my friends, how much working hundrs of hours with people with mental health problems influences us, and how we can make a ALB Directory patient sicker (iatrogenize) who is confus and trapp in their existential anguish. my family: ‘I’ll get out of there when I have to get out, that’s all. I’ll be there for a couple of days and then I’ll leave.’ No one had any idea that I would spend two months there! The only way out was to accept that they were right.
