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Narrative Psychiatry and the Little Red Alpha
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Time: March 11, 2013 from 6:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: Teviot Lecture Theatre
Street: Teviot Place
City/Town: Edinburgh
Website or Map: http://medicalhumanities.word…
Event Type: lecture
Organized By: Medical Humanities Research Network Scotland
Latest Activity: Jan 28, 2013
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Narrative Psychiatry and the Little Red Alfa: Psychiatry is having to face up to a big problem. Much of the evidence for the effectiveness of drug treatments indicates that most psychiatric drugs are barely more effective than placebos (dummy tablets). In addition, there are serious doubts about the effectiveness and the safety of the drugs used to treat the most severe form of mental disorders – schizophrenia. In psychotherapy outcome research it has been recognised for at least seventy years that it’s not the specific ingredients of different psychotherapies that are effective, but the qualities of the therapist and the therapeutic relationship. This raises a difficult question: on what grounds should an ethical, caring and effective form of psychiatric practice rest?
In this talk I will briefly outline this problem, before describing the main features of what I and others call narrative psychiatry as a way forward. Narrative psychiatry engages with the diverse contexts and meanings that matter to people who use mental health services. It is also capable of accommodating many divergent models, or ways of understanding madness and distress, including the biomedical model. In particular it foregrounds the ethical and moral aspects of mental health practice, and thus fully recognises both the importance and complexity of self-defined recovery. Most interesting, however, is the way that narrative psychiatry reveals the value of the humanities in psychiatry. This, as well as the other elements of narrative psychiatry, will be illustrated through a short story based in my clinical experience.
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