From industrialised to mindful medicine: including the politics of need and trust in child psychiatry

SUMMARY Diagnostic systems are not conducive to compassionate health-bringing psychiatric treatment. The were built around the fallacy that politics of biomedicine could be reliably applied emergent properties human psychological suffering and enable diagnosis-specific treatment packages. resulting industrialised medicine, which reified people, failed facilitate compassion needed for healing. This article outlines an approach practice involves understanding children's vulnerabilities in terms their attachment strategies adaptation context takes a mindful developing collaborative goals (intelligent kindness). A shift towards medicine would encourage politicians serve people by addressing contexts associated with what makes vulnerable, especially social inequalities. Healthy societies dis-ease population is adequately addressed will limited biomedical dis-ease.