Whatever Happened to the Faculty on the Way to the Agora?

Eisenberg, Leon

doi:10.1001/archinte.159.19.2251

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“…Just as the intellectual underpinnings of our field are becoming brainier and more mindful, practitioners are being pressed to reify DSM-IV categories and employ drugs as panaceas - strategies that are neither brainy nor mindful! I will not say more on this matter here, as I have addressed it elsewhere (Eisenberg, 1999 b ).…”

Section: Managerial Fetters On Effective Carementioning

confidence: 99%

Is psychiatry more mindful or brainier than it was a decade ago?

Eisenberg

2000

Br J Psychiatry

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Academic psychiatry in the USA in the Academic psychiatry in the USA in the decade after the Second World War was decade after the Second World War was dominated by psychoanalytic theory. dominated by psychoanalytic theory. Psychotherapy, most of it psychodynamic Psychotherapy, most of it psychodynamic in orientation, was the principal activity in orientation, was the principal activity of clinicians in office practice. Critics like of clinicians in office practice. Critics like myself who pointed out the lack of empiri-myself who pointed out the lack of empirical validation for the theory or the practice cal validation for the theory or the practice were unavailing (Eisenberg, 1962). were unavailing (Eisenberg, 1962). This is less surprising when considered This is less surprising when considered in context: there were in context: there were no no treatments of treatments of demonstrated effectiveness. Psychiatric demonstrated effectiveness. Psychiatric diagnosis had low interrater reliability.

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confidence: 99%

Is psychiatry more mindful or brainier than it was a decade ago?

Eisenberg

2000

Br J Psychiatry

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“…As noted by Leon Eisenberg, a Harvard social psychiatrist, encounters between patients and physicians are increasingly marred by mismatches between what patients want and what physicians are able to provide (59,60). Patients want enough time to tell their story, to be listened to, to be cared for as individuals.…”

Section: Automated Doctor Machines?mentioning

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Science as a Way of Life: Perplexities of a Physician-Scientist

Bloom

2003

Science

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“…Several possibilities are evident to those who both admire and are critical of North American medicine and bioethics. First, the growth of bioethics has taken place in an era when medicine, particularly in the USA, has been transformed into a business, and health care has been commodified and bureaucratised [2, 3, 4, 5]. Second, there has been loss of trust in health care professionals and their work has been devalued [6, 7].…”

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confidence: 99%