If the powers that be, including the framers of the present White Paper, were really, in the main, concerned with the health of our people and not, in the main, as they are, with making the world safe for bureaucracy, I would even now ask a favour of them. I would ask them to*...
While these changes and modern care come with their own challenges, the treatment of mental health has come a long way in 250 years. No longer do the mentally ill need to fear living in inhumane asylums for life, being subjected to experimental shock treatments or undergoing dangerous surgeries...
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though these were often barbaric and sometimes worsened patient’s conditions, such aselectroshock therapyandlobotomies, which saw extended use in the 1930s and 40s. However, possibly the most significant mental health breakthrough came when Harry Truman signed the National Mental Health Act in ...
For 30 years she had tried every conventional treatment—psychotherapy, “tons of meds,” transcranial magnetic stimulation (which applies magnetic fields to excite neurons), and even electroconvulsive or “shock” therapy, in which electrodes on her scalp delivered electric current directly to her ...
When we talk about mental health, we could seem to be talking about some self-evident reality. However, the very notion of mental health can be seen to both assume and require a specific vision of human interiority. The so-called ‘sciences of the soul’
Brain stimulation therapies for mental health are not a first-line treatment, but they may be able to help.
Aversion therapy, a type of behavioral therapy, can take many forms. For many, aversion therapy is a treatment to heal from an addictive behavior that’s affecting their mental health.
After nearly 30 years of mental health treatment I now do not tolerate any care professional or acquaintance trying to suggest ways that I might fully recover. I often say do you think I deserve treatment for a finite amount of time? Have I used up all my care tokens or will you not ...
3. The dominance of pharmaceutical treatments in psychiatry: The most lasting impact of the Flexner Report on mental healthcare was its role in cementing the pharmaceutical model of psychiatry. As the biomedical approach became dominant, treatment for mental illness increasingly cente...