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Radical Relational Psychiatry: Toward a Democracy of Mind and People

Pages 111-125
Published online: 15 Feb 2018
 
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The radical psychiatry movement of the 1960s and 1970s challenged the medical model of psychotherapy, positioning alienation as the root cause of all mental and social distress. Both cause and solution were seen as residing in social relationships. Currently, we are seeing a rise in political tyranny in many quarters of the globe. This has inspired political engagement because of polarizing positions. In society this encourages passion for values as well as hatred and intolerance of otherness. The author proposes that intolerance feeds regressive defenses such as projective mechanisms and splitting, and she explores these in relation to alienation. In the search for a contemporary perspective, she offers the pursuit of social, political, and psychological pluralism within a radical relational psychiatry.

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Karen Minikin

Karen Minikin, BA (Hons.) (counseling), MSc (psychotherapy), UKCP-registered psychotherapist, BACP Senior Accredited Supervisor, Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy), Diploma in Clinical Supervision, is a member of EATA, IARTA, UKATA, and the ITAA. She runs a private clinical and supervision practice in Hellingly, East Sussex, England, and is a peripatetic tutor and supervisor. She can be reached at Stable Barn, New Road, Hellingly, East Sussex, BN27 4EW, United Kingdom; email: .

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The author received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
 

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