The video, ‘The Agenda with Steven Paiken Disturbed Minds or Manuals’ is an awesome panel conversation between Dr. Donna Stewart, Dr. Kwame McKenzie, Dr. Allen J. Frances, and a Historian Edward Shorter. It begins with Allen Frances pitching the idea that doctors are at a major risk of treating fake ailments with pills. Allen questions the resources and attention that are directed towards diagnoses when there are no tools for treating. He further suggests the possibility of doctors have reduced the pool of normal treatments, and the forthcoming edition of statistical and diagnostic manual DSM5 is only set to exacerbate and accelerate the current situation.
Edward Shorter makes an effort to make the title ‘treating fake ills with pills’ appear like it is more than an attractive title. However, he ends up blowing his motive when he goes all in to try an instant diagnosis that is based on a sound clip that is four-minute long. It is nice and encouraging to note that the three psychiatrists on the panel are more reluctant even to consider such an action. Shorter however unwittingly offers a choice example of everything he thinks is wrong with the mental health world, which is dominated by the idea of Diagnosis for Dummies , as suggested by DSM IV.
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Mark greatly contributes to the Diagnosis for Dummies when he shares his experience when getting over severe Obsessive Compulsive Disorder through behavioral therapy. Mark talks about his desire to see an expansion in the pool of normal to include mental illness. Towards the end of the discussion, the coordinator of recovery network, Kevin Healey suggests a little playfulness and raises issues regarding the folly that surrounds psychiatric diagnosis. This suggestion by Kevin brings the discussion to a conclusion that simply because a person can hear voices is not reason enough that they are ill. If this leads to an individual being isolated, then it can result in then becoming even more seriously ill that they were before. It is possible for an individual to learn how to make sense of the voices that they hear and connect them with their life experiences and make sense out of them.
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(2018). Retrieved 16 April 2018, from http://tv.twcc.com/tv/agenda-with-steve-paikin/2608285/episode-guide
