Hearing Voices and Psychiatry´s (Real) Medical Model
(WorldNews Health)

Most psychiatrists and psychologists are taught that engaging the voices is foolish and dangerous and that their content is random and meaningless. — Reader’s comment posted on STAT 1 Introduction Let’s say you are seeing a recently-bereaved woman in her 60s, whose husband died suddenly two weeks ago. Her response to the loss is consistent with grief, and she doesn’t fit DSM-5 criteria for a major depressive episode. However, she is anxious and alarmed because, as she puts it,