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1. Lancet: labels, interventions, ... 2. Lancet: mental illness Powered by LSoft's LISTSERV(R) list management software ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 11:22:05 -0800 From: Sylvia Caras <[email protected]> Subject: Lancet: labels, interventions, ... With ICD-11 due to be finalised in 2018, the discussion on the merits of defining diagnoses versus the harms of creating stigmatising labels continues. Perhaps there needs to be a greater acceptance amongst psychiatrists that for some people the route to feeling better and living the life they want just isn't found within the realm of what mental health care can offer. http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(16)30381-9/fulltext?elsca1=etoc "People Who experience mood swings, fear, voices and visions" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 11:16:27 -0800 From: Sylvia Caras <[email protected]> Subject: Lancet: mental illness http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(16)30232-2/fulltext?elsca1=etoc (If I could comment to the Lancet, I'd write: I agree with the author that the language is illogical, but the author too expands the scope of the psychiatric interventions for illness. If the DSM hadn't so expanded it's descriptions, and if the drug industry hadn't increasingly offered medication for any mood or symptom except bliss, then maybe health and illness would not have gotten conflated. Sylvia) "People Who experience mood swings, fear, voices and visions" ------------------------------ End of IRIS Digest - 24 Nov 2016 to 25 Nov 2016 (#2016-107) ***********************************************************
