Is Biological Really Reductionistic?
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The term ‘medical model’ is frequently used in psychiatry with denigration, suggesting that its methods are paternalistic, inhumane and reductionist. This view has influenced mental health organisations, which in certain areas advocate a departure from the medical model, and contributes to the difficulties in leadership being played out between politicians, professionals and patients. The view has some support from within psychiatry (with some psychiatrists being apologists), from the 1960s’ antipsychiatry movement, as well as from some in the recovery movement (Ralph et al, 2002). Although diversity is healthy, it may fuel unproductive rivalry to be recognised as the therapeutic agent between divergent therapies and agencies.
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