Valuing the past: The importance of an understanding of the history of psychiatry for healthcare professionals, service users and carers
Valuing the past: The importance of an understanding of the history of psychiatry for healthcare professionals, service users and carers
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DOI：
10.1046/j.1447-0349.2003.t01-1-.x
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发表时间：
2003-12-01
影响因子：
5.6
通讯作者：
Beer, M. Dominic
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作者：
Ion, Robin M.;Beer, M. Dominic
本文主要借鉴英国的例子，认为了解精神病学的历史对临床医生、服务使用者和护理人员具有实际用途。它可以提供一个了解现状的窗口，并对当前实践的某些方面进行解释。此外，对过去的研究可以提供当前和未来如何以不同的方式做事的愿景。此外，对过去的了解也可以提醒我们精神病学被滥用的可能性，以及精神病学被简单地视为一门仁慈的科学，注定要找到精神疾病答案的世界观所固有的危险。
Drawing primarily on examples from the UK, this paper argues that an understanding of the history of psychiatry can be of practical use to clinicians, service users and carers. It can provide a window on the present and an explanation of some aspects of current practice. In addition, a study of the past can provide a vision of how things might be done differently in the present and in the future. Moreover, knowledge of the past can also serve to remind us of psychiatry's potential for misuse and the dangers inherent in a view of the world in which psychiatry is simply seen as a benevolent science destined to find an answer to mental illness.