P. Kinderman

Decisions about therapy should be based on their specific problems, not on diagnosis. Individual formulations not disease model. He is opposed to the idea of mental disease, says it is all the result of psycho-social biological influences and should be tackled on a problem orientated approach. Whole chapters on deficiencies of antidepressants and antipsychotics, (all true), but really he is opposed to the dominance of psychiatrists in psychological ill health.
Interesting views on IAPT, the improving access to psychological therapy, which happened in UK primary care in around 2006. He believes that CBT has its place but is far too manual driven, narrow, inflexible, spending inadequate time on general health, and being sent people with many other problems.
I think that brains, like every other organ in the body can suffer from defects, inherent as well as the result of external injury, so there is a place for diagnosis and the disease model of psychological illness. Classification can help analysis and understanding and to some extent treatment.
However there is I suspect much ignorance about what help might be available from psychologists and there is a strange division between doctors psychologists, and psychoanalysts.… (lisätietoja)