Psychiatry's “Defect Model of Mental Illness:” a Path for Those it Has Failed - CounterPunch

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Psychiatry's “Defect Model of Mental Illness:” a Path for Those it Has FailedCounterPunch... defect theory of mental illness—for example, the pseudoscience behind the chemical imbalance defect (see CounterPunch 2014), and how even establishment psychiatrists now reject this idea (Ronald Pies, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the Psychiatric ...