Despite decades of research, psychiatric pharmacotherapy remains limited in its clinical effectiveness and understanding of therapeutic mechanisms. Dominant approaches, rooted in symptom-scale-driven randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and biological reductionism, often fail to capture the complex, subjective, and context-dependent nature of psychotropic drug effects. In this article, we...
Mark Fisher wrote “the task of repoliticizing mental illness is an urgent one if the left wants to challenge capitalist realism.” This paper attempts to develop this thought and show how the repoliticization of issues defined as mental illnesses that could have an emancipatory potential and undermine capitalist realism could look like and how it could be related to the contemporary phenomenon...
Mark Fisher wrote „the task of repoliticizing mental illness is an urgent one if the left wants to challenge capitalist realism.” This paper attempts to develop this thought and show how the repoliticization of issues defined as mental illnesses that could have an emancipatory potential and undermine capitalist realism could look like and how it could be related to the contemporary phenomenon...
The article is a review and an analysis of studies concerning usage of meditation techniques in psychiatry and psychotherapy. A brief history and characteristic of meditation is presented, with emphasis on mindfulness meditation, which is a variation most widely used for health reasons. On the other hand, potential „side effects” of meditational practices are also brought into attention. The...