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By Sylvia Olney

ISBN-10: 0739197029

ISBN-13: 9780739197028

The Medicalization of Psychotherapy: working towards lower than the impact is an ethnographic account of the perform of medical psychology below the reductionist auspices of biomedicine. utilizing Peircean semiotic research focusing specifically on modes in meaning-making, Sylvia Olney proposes that consciousness might be accorded an identical conceptual and cost prestige as “nature” and the human physique. this could get to the bottom of the psyche/soma split as reflected either inside and among the perform disciplines of medication and psychotherapy, and will additionally unfastened practitioners and client/patients from the assumption of crucial helplessness within the face of biology, a thought which occurs to give a contribution to the vested pursuits of the pharmaceutical and coverage industries. Given the advances of neuroscience and psychoneuroimmunology that help the popularity of force-like dimensions of mind and intention, The Medicalization of Psychotherapy is helping to revive the perform of psychotherapy to the numerous therapeutic paintings it has really been: the therapeutic of consciousness.

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16 Chapter 1 The biomedical paradigm presently seems consumed with an emphasis on discovering “the genetic basis” of mental disorders, an agenda that not only attests to the continuing “supremacy of biomedicine,” but is largely backed by Western pharmaceutical commercial interests (Skultans and Cox 2000, 27–28), and raises the perennial question of who stands to benefit from the knowledge as it is constructed. Clearly, there is a “politics of medicine” that involves a “struggle for control over information and resources,” as well as the status of particular medical models and their practitioners (Staiano 1986, xvxvi).

Setting out to prove that “‘the black race’ was every bit as capable as [Europe and North America] of ‘civilization’ and ‘refinement’” seemed to “pave the way” for Haitian ethnopsychiatry as people such as the medically trained anthropologist Jean Price-Mars (Louis Mars’ father) objected to the effects of voodoo being classified in pathologizing Western terms (Farmer 1992, 258–59). More recently, psychiatry has been part of general medical training in Haiti, and Haitian psychiatrists, thanks to Price-Mars and Mars, do not object to voodoo (Farmer 1992, 262–63).

By definition, however, this system or process of meaning-making is open, dynamic, and infinite on the basis of the phenomenon of the Third, or interpretive, sign. Daniel proceeds to claim that a culture may also 14 Chapter 1 exhibit a mode of representation, another Peircean idea, which may be iconic, indexical, or symbolic. I find this interesting because the cooptation of the field of mental health by biomedicine and allied industries may be seen as an example of an indexical mode at work, in that dysphoric states of any kind, some invented by the pharmaceutical industry itself, are “sold” to potential client/patients or consumers as “natural” or unambiguous indicators of disease.

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