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2 days agoThe Cyclic Nature of Psychiatric Care
Not only can things get better, but they've also been better. Many smart, good people have looked at their time's ways of dealing with mental distress and found a superior way. Psychiatry isn't a linear field of medicine. Rather, it's been marked by periods of reform and humanity, alternating with periods of reductive thinking and scant resources. It's essential to understand this cyclic movement. Right now I'd say we're somewhere between the two.
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