ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
From Mental Health Industry to Humane Care. Suggestions for an Alternative Systemic Approach to Distress.
Review in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Transforming specialized mental health practice: Insights from clients' perspectives on how to support recovery.PLOS mental health · 2026Article
- Peer-supported Open Dialogue: a qualitative study of peer practitioners' experiences and non-peer practitioners' perspectives on peer involvement.BJPsych open · 2025Article
- Exploring Open Dialogue and autism: A qualitative client-perspective study.PLOS mental health · 2025Article
- The anatomy of crisis.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2024Article
- Unraveling complexity in changing mental health care towards person-centered care.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Current insights of community mental healthcare for people with severe mental illness: A scoping review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Effects of Temporary Respiration Exercise with Individual Harmonic Frequency on Blood Pressure and Autonomic Balance.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Introducing Peer-supported Open Dialogue in changing mental health care.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Integrating eHealth within a Transforming Mental Healthcare Setting: A Qualitative Study into Values, Challenges, and Prerequisites.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
The article proposes a rough outline of an alternative systemic approach to mental health issues and of a more humane mental health care system. It suggests focusing on understanding mental distress as stemming from problems in living, using medications as agents facilitating psychotherapy, or as a last resort and short-term help, according to the principles of harm reduction. It argues that understanding drugs as psychoactive substances and studying the subjective effects they produce could lead to better utilization of medications and improvements in terms of conceptualizing and assessing treatment effects. Qualitative research could be particularly useful in that regard. It also advocates a radical departure from current diagnostic systems and proposes a synthesis of already existing alternatives to be used for both research and clinical purposes. Accordingly, a general idea for an alternative mental health care system, based on a combination of Open Dialogue Approach, Soteria houses, individual and group psychotherapy, cautious prescribing, services helping with drug discontinuation, peer-led services and social support is presented. The proposition could be seen as a first step towards developing a systemic alternative that could replace the currently dominating approach instead of focusing on implementing partial solutions that can be co-opted by the current one.
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