The recent UK TV docudrama, The Doctor Who Hears Voices, that we discussed previously has appeared on torrent servers and seems available for download. I’ve not yet seen the programme or fully downloaded it myself yet, but I’m assuming it works OK.
Clinical psychologist Rufus May plays himself. An interesting choice because he was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 18 and later trained as a clinical psychologist. As an aside, he’s also recently launched his own blog to try and encourage debate around mental health.
May works in Bradford, which has turned out to be a bit of a UK centre for radical ideas in mental health.
Bradford is also the home to psychiatrists Patrick Bracken and Philip Thomas, who wrote a thought-provoking article for the British Medical Journal in 2001 on ‘post-psychiatry‘ that has proven to be one of the cornerstones of progressive mental health philosophy.
The groups tends to be treated with suspicion by mainstream psychiatrists, who can be quite a defensive bunch at times, but it’s interesting that some of the ideas that the Bradford group pioneered, such as treating people in their own homes, are now accepted as mainstream practice.
Link to torrent of docudrama on mininova.
Link to BMJ article on ‘post-psychiatry’.
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In addition to psychologies, doctors in many fields are seeing the benefits of treating patients at home. My doctor provides “house calls” via the web through http://onlineconsultation.com. Thanks for the post.
Yes Ronnie. Many treatments are met with suspicion by mainstream psychiatrists at first and become accepted as people become familiar with the treatment. I suspect that receiving consultations and treatments remotely through the internet will eventually become mainstream.