Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP) calls for paradigm shift away from ‘disease model’
May 12, 2013
British Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP) calls for paradigm shift away from ‘disease model’
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Update: Prof Richard Bentall on BBC Radio 4 Start the Week, Monday, May 13, 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01sd3jq
Lucy Johnstone on BBC Radio 4 Today programme, Monday, May 13, 2013 | 2 hours 50 mins in from start
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01sd3jn
Lucy Johnstone article at Mad in America, May 13, 2013:
UK Clinical Psychologists Call for the Abandonment of Psychiatric Diagnosis and the ‘Disease’ Model
Lucy Johnstone World Service interview | MP3 file | 8.2 MB at Dropbox (no Dropbox account required)
Update: Statement released: May 13, 2013
Division of Clinical Psychology
Position Statement on the Classification of Behaviour and Experience in Relation to Functional Psychiatric Diagnoses
Time for a Paradigm Shift
Today’s Observer reports on the release, tomorrow, of a Position Statement by the British Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP), a sub-division of the British Psychological Society, calling for the abandonment of diagnosis and the ‘illness/disease’ model.
Observer
Psychiatrists under fire in mental health battle
(British) Psychological Society to launch attack on rival profession, casting doubt on biomedical model of mental illness
Jamie Doward | May 12, 2013
“…In a groundbreaking move that has already prompted a fierce backlash from psychiatrists, the British Psychological Society’s division of clinical psychology (DCP) will on Monday issue a statement declaring that, given the lack of evidence, it is time for a “paradigm shift” in how the issues of mental health are understood. The statement effectively casts doubt on psychiatry’s predominantly biomedical model of mental distress the idea that people are suffering from illnesses that are treatable by doctors using drugs. The DCP said its decision to speak out “reflects fundamental concerns about the development, personal impact and core assumptions of the (diagnosis) systems”, used by psychiatry…”
Also in today’s Observer, opposing positions from Oliver James and Professor Sir Simon Wessely, a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and chair of psychological medicine at King’s College London, in which he defends the need to create classification systems for mental disorder and downplays the influence of the DSM:
Do we need to change the way we are thinking about mental illness?
Experts on both sides of the debate over the classification of mental disorders make their case
The Observer | Oliver James | Prof Sir Simon Wessely | Sunday 12 May 2013
Comment from Allen Frances, MD, on Huffington Post, on today’s Observer report:
[Note the position statement is issued by the Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP), a sub-division of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and is not the official position of the BPS.]
The Inmates Seem to Have Taken Over the Asylum
“…Then the NIMH recklessly renounced all syndromal DSM diagnosis as invalid. But NIMH has nothing to offer now in its place except an oversold and undeliverable promise of some future strictly biological model of mental illness that will take decades to deliver — assuming it can ever be delivered at all…
“…Now the British Psychological Society has produced its own brand of extremist posturing, offering its own quixotic paradigm shift..”
Further mainstream media coverage of the DSM debate
An Editorial and an Opinion piece in the New York Times:
Editorial
Shortcomings of a Psychiatric Bible
The Editorial Board | May 11, 2013
Opinion
Why the Fuss Over the D.S.M.-5?
Sally Satel | May 11, 2013
Nature | News
Psychiatry framework seeks to reform diagnostic doctrine
Critics say clinical manual unfit for mental-health research.
Heidi Ledford | May 10, 2013
Quotes from NIMH’s director, Thomas Insel; epidemiologist, Jane Costello, who resigned from the DSM-5 Work Group for Child and Adolescent Disorders in 2009, and Steven Hyman, a former NIMH director and a former DSM-5 Task Force member, who has chaired the APA-WHO International Advisory Group for the Revision of ICD-10 Mental and Behavioural Disorders [Members].
New Scientist Print edition
Feature article This Week
How a scientific DSM will transform psychiatry
Peter Aldhous, Andy Coghlan and Sara Reardon | May 8, 2013
This article appears in the print edition under the headline “A revolution in mental health, Patients deserve better than an unscientific manual, says leading health institute.”
Also in this week’s New Scientist print edition:
Editorial Opinion
Don’t count on this manual, The future of psychiatric research lies in simpler questions
Allen Frances, MD | May 8, 2013
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