New UN report stress urgent need for systemic reform of psychiatry

New UN report debated in UNs HRC stresses urgent need for systemic reform of mental health systems and shift away from narrow emphasis on biomedical approaches

UN Human Rights Council Conference room where systemic reform of mental health was debated. Photo: THIX-Photo

Source: New UN report stress urgent need for systemic reform of psychiatry

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I suggested this in my doctoral work way back in the 1990s. The professor I wrote for was a backward, old-school European who didn't take kindly to my ideas, to put it mildly. 

This is ironic because Europeans are finally seeing through the vulgar materialism, shoddy philosophy, and culture-bound politics that have characterized the American Psychiatric Association for decades.

Read more - https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/reform-of-mental-health-services-an-urgent-need-and-a-human-rights-imperative

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