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Systemic Therapy and the Unbearable Lightness of Psychiatry
Author(s) -
Stagoll Brian
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/anzf.1234
Subject(s) - vision , publishing , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , project commissioning , family therapy , psychology , psychoanalysis , narrative , psychotherapist , narrative therapy , psychiatry , media studies , sociology , art , literature , anthropology
This article is based on a transcript of the 2016 David Ingamells Memorial Lecture, at the Melbourne Clinic, sponsored by the Faculty of Psychotherapy of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry.[Note 2. Accompanying slides are available by contacting me at: brian@stagoll.com.au ...] David was a leader in family therapy in Melbourne in the 1980s and ‘90s. Being invited to give this lecture led me to reflect on 50 years in psychiatry, and how systemic views have evolved over this time. Where did our foundational visions of social psychiatry come from, and where did they lead? How do our original heroes Laing and Bateson look nowadays? How has the concept of schizophrenia changed, and where does the DSM fit in? How can we move beyond the dominant ‘neuro‐molecular narrative’ and reconcile it with psychotherapy and ‘a social view of health?’