IHR Podcast #17: Joanna Moncrieff and the politics of psychiatric drug treatment

In this episode of the Integral Health Resources Podcast, I ramble on about the inadequacy of current terminology to describe “integral” mental health perspectives, and then introduce one such perspective — the critical psychiatry of Dr. Joanna Moncrieff.

Relevant media:

  • Joanna Moncrieff – The Myth of the Chemical Cure: The Politics of Psychiatric Drug Treatment
  • Models of drug action: Brief article outlining Dr. Moncrieff’s distinction between disease-centered and drug-centered models of drug action.
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