Bonnie Burstow launches the world's first antipsychiatry scholarship at OISE

[Ysabelle-S]

I don't think this has been posted here yet. Correct me if I'm wrong:

https://nowtoronto.com/lifestyle/cl...try-scholarship-at-oise/#.WDSB1VQRD9g.twitter

"I'm hoping this scholarship will spur alternative ways of arranging society so that we aren't inventing diseases or brain-damaging people, and there is a greater acceptance of difference," says Burstow.

 

[JohnCB]

I don't think this has been posted here yet. Correct me if I'm wrong:

https://nowtoronto.com/lifestyle/cl...try-scholarship-at-oise/#.WDSB1VQRD9g.twitter

I found that a significant number of pages of Bonnie Burstow's book are accessible through Google Books, including a good chunk of the introduction. I'm looking at this now to get a feel for her work. -

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AaJ_DAAAQBAJ&dq=Psychiatry+And+The+Business+Of+Madness

 

[Hip]

Personally I am not against psychiatry, nor am I against the introduction of new psychiatry diagnoses.

However, I am strongly against the bias in psychiatry which tends to view the causes of psychiatric conditions as psychological, rather than physiological.

In the future, I think we will discover that most psychiatric conditions primarily have a biological cause; research in recent years is certainly pointing in that direction.

So what we need is a new breed of psychiatrist and psychologist who is just as well versed in biomedical understanding of the body and brain as they are with empathetic understanding of the mind.