I hope that you’ve enjoyed the future of mental healthinterview series. More than 110 interviews have appeared! You can find the complete roster with live links to the interviews here. If you’ve missed some of the interviews, do take a look at the roster: there are many valuable and eye-opening interviews to be had. In this post I’d like to provide a few concluding thoughts, including a few top tips for reducing mental distress. If you’d like to keep abreast of the future of mental health movement, please visit here. And now, for some concluding thoughts.
Millions of people worldwide—among them mental health professionals, psychiatric survivors, parents of “diagnosed” children, enlightened legislators, academic researchers and alternative mental health practitioners—know that our current mental health paradigm, dominated by a flawed pseudo-medical model and by the indiscriminant use of chemical interventions, ought to be rejected. Nothing short of a revolution is needed. But what should that revolution look like?
I think that we might hold out seven ambitions for such a revolution. These seven ambitions—understanding human nature, disputing reductionist paradigms, adopting an activist mindset, identifying what actually helps to reduce human distress, shifting professional practice, articulating and promoting a new, more intellectually rigorous paradigm, and creating and supporting new helping alternatives—can be the place where good science, humanist values, and a genuine desire to help come together for the betterment of our species.
[For more of this story, written by Eric R. Maisel, go to https://www.psychologytoday.co...al-health-revolution]
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