Owen Whooley – A New Vision for Mental Health

Psychiatry’s Cycle of Ignorance and Reinvention: An Interview with Owen Whooley

Author: Editorial 15th February 2023 0 Comments

Ayurdhi Dhar has interviewed sociologist Prof. Owen Whooley – author of On the Heels of Ignorance : Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing – about psychiatry’s stubborn perseverance in the face of recent DSM embarrassments and the failures of the biomedical model. The interview…
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Ayurdhi Dhar, biomedical model, chemical imbalance theory, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, DSM, Mad in America, Owen Whooley, psychiatry

On the Heels of Ignorance: Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing

Author: Editorial 14th December 2022 0 Comments

This book has been written by Prof. Owen Whooley. The publishers say: “Psychiatry has always aimed to peer deep into the human mind, daring to cast light on its darkest corners and untangle its thorniest knots, often invoking the latest medical…
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books, history of psychiatry, Owen Whooley, psychiatry, sociology

Not doomed: sociology and psychiatry, and ignorance and expertise

Author: Editorial 8th December 2022 0 Comments

This paper by George Ikkos has been published in the BJPsych Bulletin. It begins: “According to Whooley, an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico, there is a growing body of sociological research on ‘ignorance’, including the ignorance…
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George Ikkos, history of psychiatry, Owen Whooley, psychiatry, Research, sociology