Psychoanalysis and public health: Potential for integration?

Holinger, Paul H.; Spira, Neal; Barrett, Denia G.; Barrett, Thomas F.

doi:10.1002/aps.1639

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“…What is often missed by mental health system administrators, and certainly by the general public, is that applied psychoanalysis is not simply a focused remedy for discrete forms of suffering, but is, perhaps pre‐eminently, a resource for prevention (Holinger, P. C., Barrett, D. G, et al., 2017). The failure to recognize its essential utility as a “distress inoculator,” its intergenerational impact or even its long‐term cost‐effectiveness alongside other forms of physical preventive care has been a significant obstacle to its greater support by systems that claim to offer public benefit.…”

Section: A Psychoanalysis Of the Community: Intervention Is Preventionmentioning

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The Kedzie center: Community‐immersed mental health from the ground up

Burke,

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2023

Appl Psychoanal Studies

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The Kedzie Center, a psychodynamically-informed community mental health center on Chicago's northwest side, was created through a truly innovative strategy for funding urban mental health services. Legislation in Illinois allows areas of the city to vote by referendum to levy a tax, calculated as 0.4% of property taxes, to support needed clinics directly, of which Kedzie is the first of (currently) four. Each of the six referenda put forward thus far under the Expanded Mental Health Services Act won a landslide endorsement from the voters in its catchment area, who feel ownership and investment in the services they have created. A small group of psychoanalytically-oriented clinicians was chosen by a governing commission made up of appointee community members to run the first EMHS clinic. Since its creation 7 years ago, the Kedzie Center has offered a test case for the success of the EMHS Act, and has been able to use the flexibility its funding model affords to provide long-term primary, ancillary and coordinated care that is tailored to the community it serves. Yet its success as a vibrant hub for this diverse and challenged urban area has not immunized it from the difficulties involved in creating an integrated community psychoanalysis. Kedzie's success has come with both tension and growth regarding its mission, its staff development and its role in the wider community.

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Section: A Psychoanalysis Of the Community: Intervention Is Preventionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Kedzie center: Community‐immersed mental health from the ground up

Burke,

Sedeño

2023

Appl Psychoanal Studies

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“…Over the last years a greater integration of psychoanalysis within the healthcare system has been authoritatively advocated [7]. Now Austin Ratner [8], an advisor to the American Psychoanalytic Association advocacy, public information, messaging, and branding task force, stated that psychoanalysis should contribute to fostering the citizens' widest consensus to contagion preventing measures.…”

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Psychoanalysis and Non-Adherence to Medical Advice: An Ethical Dilemma in Covid-19 Pandemic

Azzone¹

2021

Anxiety, Uncertainty, and Resilience During the Pandemic Period - Anthropological and Psychological Perspectives

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Mitigation measures required by Covid-19 pandemic have posed severe restrictions on individual freedom and have been met with persistent opposition in minority circles. As non-adherence to preventive measures is believed to increase health risks for the society at large, dissent from official policies has been a source of concern. Within this framework several eminent psychoanalysts have suggested psychoanalysis should be enrolled as a component of health related public opinion campaigns. The chapter will discuss the historical relation between mental health institutions and social control strategies and will formulate a psychoanalytic model of the social dialectic associated with the Coronavirus pandemic. The model will allow the author to offer grounded ethical perspectives on the issue.

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Patient Education and Community Outreach in Diagnostic Medical Sonography Programs

Tilson,

Sharma,

Clark

2024

Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography

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Objective: A research project was conducted to determine what patient education skills, community health education skills, and community outreach activities are included in the US-accredited diagnostic medical sonography (DMS) programs. Materials and Methods: A quantitative, cross-sectional research survey was sent via email to DMS program directors of 245 accredited programs, resulting in 118 (48.2%) completed surveys returned. Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects before the study. The survey assessed the inclusion of 13 specific patient education skills, eight community education skills, and nine community health/outreach activities in DMS programs. Results: Of the 12 patient education skills, 11 were routinely included in 90% of programs. The remaining skill of patient negotiation was included in 75.1% of programs. For patient education skills, 69.4% were required by programs, and 30.6% were encouraged by programs. Community education skills were less commonly included in DMS programs, with 27.4% to 51.3% inclusion rates. The most common community education skill was tailoring messages to intended public audiences. Community outreach activity inclusion in programs ranged from 32.5% to 66.7%, with 77.5% only encouraging participation. Health fairs, health screenings, and self-care education were the most common activities. Incorporating community-related skills into the curriculum was listed as a “good idea” by 72.6% of program directors. Conclusion: Patient education skills are routinely required or encouraged in almost all responding educational programs. However, most DMS programs do not require or encourage community education skills. Community outreach activities are not generally required or encouraged by DMS programs, with health fairs and screenings being the most common. Time constraints are the most cited reason for not including community-related content or activities in the programs.

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Psychoanalysis and public health: Potential for integration?

Cited by 3 publications

References 48 publications

The Kedzie center: Community‐immersed mental health from the ground up

The Kedzie center: Community‐immersed mental health from the ground up

Psychoanalysis and Non-Adherence to Medical Advice: An Ethical Dilemma in Covid-19 Pandemic

Patient Education and Community Outreach in Diagnostic Medical Sonography Programs

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