Posted by baseball55 on January 1, 2015, at 20:36:57
In reply to Re: psychiatry is an ougrowth of society, posted by Christ_empowered on January 1, 2015, at 11:08:24
> ...so, yeah. I guess I should say the psychiatry that many *poor* people get is punitive and harsh, and always has been. What's frighening in that the all bio, all the time model that was en vogue for a while there (in the US) is exactly what poor people have always received. Now I've read that the tide is turning and there's more skepticism about drugs, especially complicated cocktails, and there's more openness to talk and reflection and looking at psychosocial issues.
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If poor people get different mental health care than more affluent people, I suspect the reasons are:
(1) they lack health insurance and can only get the most minimal treatment
(2) very few therapists take medicaid
(3) they are less educated and articulate and therefore less able to connect with highly educated mental health clinicians
(4) they are more likely to be black or hispanic and less able to connect with mostly white clinicians
(5) they are from cultures where people just don't get mental health treatment, especially therapy
(6) Most poor people I know (mostly my husband's extended family and friends, very poor rural area) with mental illnesses can't afford or can't find psychiatrists or therapists and go to primary care doctors who just put them on meds.This explains why poor people don't get therapy as much (possibly). As far as "punitive and harsh"....what does this mean? What evidence do you have of this? Can you give an example, besides your own unfortunate experience?
The bottom line seems to be, CE, that you personally had a bad experience with the mental health system. On that basis, you make these broad generalizations about mental health care in general.
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