Psychiatry’s cause for anxiety

Focus on people, not technology or the DSM, to treat mental illness, Tom Burns tells Matthew Reisz

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May 23, 2013
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June 10, 2015
Matthew Reisz
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Reader's comments (2)

#1 Submitted by Kenneth Scott on August 5, 2018 - 1:50pm
Completely agree that the DSM, for many, removes the behaviour pattern as the centre of treatment in mental health care. Your comment on their being a relationship between patient and professional is so important, but sadly lacking within practice. My greatest leaps to recovery have been when there has been a good relationship. It is frustrating when staff try to impose their thoughts without any real knowledge of the individual before them. Hope this gets more recognition in the grassroots of psychiatry. Thank you.
#2 Submitted by Kenneth Scott on August 5, 2018 - 1:50pm
Completely agree that the DSM, for many, removes the behaviour pattern as the centre of treatment in mental health care. Your comment on their being a relationship between patient and professional is so important, but sadly lacking within practice. My greatest leaps to recovery have been when there has been a good relationship. It is frustrating when staff try to impose their thoughts without any real knowledge of the individual before them. Hope this gets more recognition in the grassroots of psychiatry. Thank you.

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