The biopsychiatry controversy is a dispute over which viewpoint should predominate and form the scientific basis of psychiatric theory and practice. The debate is a criticism of the strict biological view of psychiatric thinking. Its critics including disparate groups such as the antipsychiatry movement, Scientologists, and some academics. A recovery model has in many countries become a substantial portion of the mental health treatment.
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The biopsychiatry controversy is a dispute over which viewpoint should predominate and form the scientific basis of psychiatric theory and practice. The debate is a criticism of the strict biological view of psychiatric thinking. Its critics including disparate groups such as the antipsychiatry movement, Scientologists, and some academics. A recovery model has in many countries become a substantial portion of the mental health treatment.
Over centuries of progress medical science has developed a variety of therapeutic practices that have made many illnesses more treatable or even fully eradicable. Biological psychiatry or biopsychiatry aims to investigate determinants of mental disorders devising remedial measures of a primarily somatic nature.
This has been criticized by Alvin Pam for being a "stilted, unidimensional, and mechanistic world-view", so that subsequent "research in psychiatry has been geared toward discovering which aberrant genetic or neurophysiological factors underlie...
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