Medicalization Of Mental Illness Debate

Medicalizing mental health: a phenomenological alternative

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18633696

Psychiatry and the Myth of “Medicalization”

https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/psychiatry-and-myth-medicalization

In my view, the medicalization narrative contains some kernels of truth, and many defenders of the term proceed from honorable and well-intentioned motives; for example, the wish to reduce unnecessary use of psychotropic medication-and who could be opposed to that? But on the whole, I believe the medicalization narrative is philosophically naive and clinically unhelpful.

Medicalisation and its discontents - The Lancet Psychiatry

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366%2816%2930120-1/fulltext

It is extremely popular among those who oppose what they see as a biologically driven, technocratic form of mental health care promoted by psychiatry that neglects the social factors behind distress. And, …

Medicalizing mental health: a phenomenological alternative

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18633696/

Informed by hermeneutic phenomenology, psychiatry's first priority is to suspend the prejudices that come with being a medical doctor in order to hear what the …

The Medicalization of Mental Disorder | SpringerLink

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-007-4276-5_4

The medicalization of mental disorder is the process by which particular human conditions become defined and treated as medical or psychiatric problems. …

The Medicalization of the Human Condition | Psychiatric …

https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ps.53.5.627

To medicalize the human condition is to apply a diagnostic label to various unpleasant or undesirable feelings or behaviors that are not distinctly abnormal but that …

Medicalization in psychiatry: the medical model, …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26602907/

Medicalization was the theme of the 29th European Conference on Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care that included a panel session on the DSM and mental …

Overprescribing Drugs to Treat Mental Health Problems

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/why-we-worry/201401/overprescribing-drugs-treat-mental-health-problems

In the case of some mental health problems, such as depression, between 50 to 60 percent of individuals taking antidepressant drugs do show improvement, but in …

Medicalization: Scientific Progress or Disease Mongering?

https://med.nyu.edu/departments-institutes/population-health/divisions-sections-centers/medical-ethics/education/high-school-bioethics-project/learning-scenarios/medicalization-ethics

Medicalization of Normal Health Variants Medicalization refers to the process in which conditions and behaviors are labeled and treated as medical issues. Critics have labeled …

The Paradox of Mental Health: Over-Treatment and …

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1001456

On the one hand is over-treatment and over-medicalization of mental health issues, often fueled by a pharmaceutical industry interested in the broadening of …

The mental illness industry is medicalising normality

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/sep/06/mental-illness-medicalising-normality

Over the last 40 years The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – the bible of the psychiatric professions – has spawned more and more …