Hello everybody, today I want to tell you about my favourite subjet: Anti psychiatry.
This subject is taught how a elective in psychology career, and its teacher is Carlos Perez Soto. He is a famed person that knows a lot about psychology, epistemology, physics, art and marxism.
It is the first year that we can choose this subject and many people is interested on this area.
The argument of the course consist in a new and radical look of the psychiatry and the "mental disorders". In first place, this ultimate concept is revised considering the historical relativity of the craziness, Actually, mental disorders are considered under the medical model; this would imply that is know a cause, its mechanism and consequences of a disorder. In fact, it is not really: the causes are uncertain by problems with techniques and the measures interpretation, the mechanism are unknow and the consecuences aren't classifiable rigorously in any way... then, "mental disorder" aren't a disease, can't be heal like one. They are only a subjetive problem.
In anti psychiatry subjet the argument is not critical of the scientific method, evidence how the psichiatry really don`t use it.
Besides, the course analyze the medicalization of the problems, how tons of drugs are giving to the people without a real reason more than social control and business. The personalization of subjective problems is other anaized problem; social and political component are denied.
Finally, this subject has 3 assessment; we have to read some books and chapters, but we can learn important problems and discuse how solve them.
Gos Bye
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