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President, Founder of Shades Of You, Shades of Me, Multicultural Maternal Mental Health Organization

As clinicians, the terms we are given to describe our work inevitably shape the work itself, even if we don’t agree with them, and the patient is even more powerless is this configuration. The language performs a simplification and literalization of treatment, and since public psychiatry only improves itself within it own terms, it cannot see beyond this serious limitation. I believe that there is a crisis going on in our culture that mental health care does end up addressing, but where treatment is effective, it is certainly not because of the quantity or quality of the records it produces. Indeed, these records and the bureaucracy they reflect are patronizing and absurd in the face of the magnitude of human suffering psychiatry faces #mentalhealth #clinical #devotionstartswithin

Is Public Psychiatry Responding to the Mental Health Crisis or Just “Treating the Chart?”

Is Public Psychiatry Responding to the Mental Health Crisis or Just “Treating the Chart?”

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