The psychiatrist as archaeologist and architect

The psychiatrist as archaeologist and architect

A colleague and I recently proposed a model to guide the description and reform of mental health services and to clarify service evaluation (Tansella & Thornicroft, 1998). The model, which we call the ‘mental health matrix’, consists of two dimensions, one temporal and one geographical. The temporal dimension comprises three phases: input (phase A), process (phase B) and outcome (phase C). The ...

Occupational health and the archaeologist.

Writing the Case—Pinel as Psychiatrist

introduction P hilippe Pinel’s Traité médico-philosophique sur l’aliénation mentale ou la manie, published in 1802, is the cardinal book of aliénisme (the French word for the nascent field of psychiatry), and the work that, according to the myth of the birth of rational psychiatry, breaks with the ancient medical practices of treating the mentally ill. In it, Pinel defines the psychiatrist’s fi...

the effect of teaching reading as whole text task and paragraph task on efl learners speaking

abstract the present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of a rather newly developed method in language teaching that is the use of paragraph reading task and whole reading task and their effects on improving efl learner’s speaking ability. to fulfill the purpose of the study, first 90 participants studying their course at sa eedi high school in tehran were chosen by means of ...

the differential effects of debate and media analysis as relate to enhancing efl learners critical thinking ability and writing performances

critical thinking ability has an important role in education. accordingly, scholars around the world are searching for new ways for teaching and improving students critical thinking ability. in line with the studies in efl contexts supporting the positive relationship between critical thinking and writing performances, this study investigated the differential effects of halverson’s critical thi...