Challenging conventional models of psychiatric drug therapy: an alternative patient-centered approach

Autor:	Joanna Moncrieff
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Presumption medicine.medical_treatment Chemical imbalance Alternative medicine Drug action Psychiatric drug therapy medicine.disease_cause Neurology medicine Antidepressant Neurology (clinical) Psychopharmacology business Psychiatry Antipsychotic
Zdroj:	Future Neurology. 5:213-225
ISSN:	1748-6971 1479-6708
DOI:	10.2217/fnl.09.83
Popis:	Modern psychopharmacology is based on the presumption that psychiatric drugs work by helping to correct an underlying abnormal brain state, or a chemical imbalance. For this article, i have termed this the disease-centered model of psychiatric drug action. Educational and advertising campaigns that have promoted this notion have resulted in soaring rates of use of drugs such as antidepressants and antipsychotics. However, drug action has not always been understood in these terms. This article challenges the disease-centered model of psychiatric drug action, and presents an alternative drug-centered view. The drug-centered model is based on the understanding that psychiatric drugs have psychoactive properties. They produce altered, drug-induced states in the individuals who take them, which may suppress the symptoms of mental disorders. Greater knowledge regarding the drug-induced effects of psychiatric drugs would help patients and prescribers to assess the pros and cons of drug treatment more accurately, and to use drugs more effectively. Further implications of this view are discussed.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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