Deconstructing the mental health crisis in only 2 pieces

In their editorial in this issue of JPN, Merali and Anisman1 proposed a deconstruction of the mental health crisis in 5 uneasy pieces. While a crisis may exist, there may be divergence on how to define this crisis, how it can be deconstructed and how we can move beyond it. First, from Merali and Ani...

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Published in:Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience 2016-07, Vol.41 (4), p.222-224
Main Author: Joober, Ridha
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biomedical Research
Brain Diseases - physiopathology
Brain Diseases - therapy
Crisis management
Humans
Management
Mental disorders
Mental Disorders - physiopathology
Mental Disorders - therapy
Mental Health
Methods
Psychiatrists
Studies
Suicides & suicide attempts
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Summary:In their editorial in this issue of JPN, Merali and Anisman1 proposed a deconstruction of the mental health crisis in 5 uneasy pieces. While a crisis may exist, there may be divergence on how to define this crisis, how it can be deconstructed and how we can move beyond it. First, from Merali and Anisman's use of the term treatment almost always being synonymous with pharmacological treatment, their quasi-silence on nonpharmacological treatments and from the type of research they are promoting, it can be deduced that the crisis the authors described is mainly one of biological psychiatry. Second, there is certainly a crisis in mental health, which encompasses more than biological psychiatry, but I believe that the nature of the 2 crises and the responses that they require may be very different and probably at times antagonistic. So I propose to deconstruct the crisis into 2 pieces: biological psychiatry and mental health.
ISSN:1180-4882
1488-2434
DOI:10.1503/jpn.160103