Freedom, Power, and Democratic Planning

Duncan, John Paul; Mannheim, K.

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“…The activism by mental health nurses, both subject to and potential revolutionary within contemporary practice, is complex and more work is required to fully understand this experience. However, this process of activism resonates significantly with what Mannheim (1951) describes as ‘integrative behaviour’. Integrative behaviour is not simply about passive compromise, accepting the multitude of competing paradigms; rather it forces individuals to utilise creative energy, expose themselves to differing paradigms to discover new ways of being.…”

Section: The Contemporary Paradigmatic Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

The biological paradigm of psychosis in crisis: A Kuhnian analysis

2023

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The philosophy of Thomas Kuhn proposes that scientific progress involves periods of crisis and revolution in which previous paradigms are discarded and replaced.Revolutions in how mental health problems are conceptualised have had a substantial impact on the work of mental health nurses. However, despite numerous revolutions within the field of mental health, the biological paradigm has remained largely dominant within western healthcare, especially in orientating the understanding and treatment of psychosis. This paper utilises concepts drawn from the philosophy of Thomas Kuhn to explore the impact of what Kuhn terms 'anomalies' within the dominant biological paradigm: the anomaly of the meaningful utterance, the anomaly of complex aetiology and taxonomy and the anomaly of pharmacological inefficacy in recovery. The paper argues that the biological paradigm for understanding psychosis is in crisis and explores the implications for mental health nursing.

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Section: The Contemporary Paradigmatic Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%