Biopsychiatry controversy
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The biopsychiatry controversy is a dispute over which viewpoint should predominate and form the scientific basis of psychiatric theory and practice. The debate is a criticism of the strict biological view of psychiatric thinking. Its critics including disparate groups such as the antipsychiatry movement and some academics. A recovery model has in many countries become a substantial portion of the mental health treatment.
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General
- Anti-psychiatry - A movement critiquing psychiatry from the human rights perspective.
- Bipolar disorders research - biopsychiatric analysis into the cause of bipolar disorders.
- Elliott Valenstein - a psychologist and neuroscientist, author of Blaming the Brain.
- The Gene Illusion - a book by clinical psychologist Jay Joseph.
- Causes of schizophrenia
- Controversy about ADHD
- A Brief History of Anxiety (Yours & Mine), a book by journalist Patricia Pearson
- Niall McLaren- a psychiatrist and theoretician, author of Humanizing Madness and Humanizing Psychiatry.
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Groups critical of the biomedical paradigm
- Mindfreedom - A group which advocates for "choice" regarding psychopharmaceuticals.
- ICSPP (International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology)
- isps (International Society for the Psychological Treatment of the Schizophrenias and other Psychoses)
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