Beyond Psychiatry: Rethinking Madness Outside Medicine - Justin Garson

In this lecture, Justin Garson talks about a paradigm shift in the way that we think and talk about mental illness. Since the 1970s, psychiatry has been in the grip of a paradigm Garson calls ‘madness-as-dysfunction’. In this view, mental disorders happen when something inside the person isn’t working as it should, or is ‘broken.’ In Garson’s historical work, he has identified an alternate paradigm, which he calls ‘madness-as-strategy,’ which sees mental illness in terms of purpose, adaptation and function. Garson contrasts these frameworks and outline their implications for research, treatment and stigma.
This is the thirteenth lecture in the London Lecture Series 2023/24, which this year is on the subject of Madness and Mental Health. Watch the whole series here: • Madness and Mental Hea...
About the speaker
Justin Garson is professor of philosophy at City University of New York, and author of Madness: A Philosophical Exploration (2022), with Oxford University Press. He is also the author of The Madness Pill: The Quest to Create Insanity and One Doctor’s Discovery that Transformed Psychiatry, forthcoming with St. Martin’s Press.
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Is this based around the Power threat meaning framework? I really hope this becomes mainstream

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I read that people exist that don't have an internal monologue at all. I found that strange