Mental health and consciousness are intertwined. Basic subjective experiences like feeling good, bad or depressed, or perceiving your surroundings “accurately” relate to conscious processes. The field of consciousness research can deepen our understanding of these experiences and also exceptional occurances – like how hallucinations happen or how sensing your own body can be disturbed in dissociative states. Research in the area of predictive processing has greatly expanded over the last deca...
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Mental health and consciousness are intertwined. Basic subjective experiences like feeling good, bad or depressed, or perceiving your surroundings “accurately” relate to conscious processes. The field of consciousness research can deepen our understanding of these experiences and also exceptional occurances – like how hallucinations happen or how sensing your own body can be disturbed in dissociative states. Research in the area of predictive processing has greatly expanded over the last deca...
How the diagnostic system started to swell (with DSM-4 Chair Allen Frances)
What’s Next in Mental Health?
33 minutes
2 years ago
How the diagnostic system started to swell (with DSM-4 Chair Allen Frances)
About a decade ago, one of the most influential psychiatrists of our time, started speaking out against over-medicalization and vested interests corroding the diagnostic system in psychiatry - a system he had helped pioneer. Professor Emeritus Allen Frances points to systemic biases with specialists pushing to expand their own speciality. Dr. Frances has protested that the pharmaceutical industry is capitalizing on this expansion and suggested that the exceptionally lucrative Diagnostic...
What’s Next in Mental Health?
Mental health and consciousness are intertwined. Basic subjective experiences like feeling good, bad or depressed, or perceiving your surroundings “accurately” relate to conscious processes. The field of consciousness research can deepen our understanding of these experiences and also exceptional occurances – like how hallucinations happen or how sensing your own body can be disturbed in dissociative states. Research in the area of predictive processing has greatly expanded over the last deca...
