Category: Psychiatry

This essay is going to evaluate the statement, psychiatry does more harm than good. This essay will define psychiatry to provide context, then will use examples to explore and discuss the history of psychiatry and how this history helps evaluate the grounds for this claim. Specifically, this essay will look at the role of asylums,…

What is diagnosis in the 21st century? In the 1880s anyone to have a mental health problem was described as an idiot. Globally we have come a long way since this, we now have two longstanding diagnostic manuals: the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel of Mental Disorders (DSM) and the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). Now…