What a lot of dubious ideas from Dr Kate Allsopp at the University of Liverpool. Here are some quotes from the
article:
I hope these findings will encourage mental health professionals to think beyond diagnoses and consider other explanations of mental distress, such as trauma and other adverse life experiences.”
This study provides yet more evidence that the biomedical diagnostic approach in psychiatry is not fit for purpose
And some quotes from a
Guardian article on Dr Kate Allsopp's views:
Allsopp and Kinderman have previously written in the Lancet that instead of recording a diagnosis of, say, “moderate personality disorder”, clinicians could record the series of adverse events and mental health difficulties that the person is experiencing, such as personal history of sexual abuse, partner violence and low income which lead (understandably) to anger, depressed mood and self-injury.
Dr Kate Allsopp follows the footsteps of many psychiatrists who do not understand the biomedical mechanics of the brain, so they ignore the brain and posit that mental illnesses are caused by psychogenic and psychosocial factors.
Psychogenic and psychosocial factors are easier to understand, because they are soft sciences. It takes a different type of intelligence to understand both these soft sciences, as well as the hard science of brain biology.
Quite a few mental health conditions have in recent years been linked to brain inflammation (which in turn might turn out to be caused by infection). So unless mental health professionals start learning more about brain biology and immunology, they will likely never get to the bottom of the actual causes of mental illness.
I've experienced first hand what how a viral infection can cause mental health illnesses: as the virus I caught spread to friends and family,
it triggered lots of cases of anxiety and depression.
