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Diagnosis: What is the role and place of diagnosis in psychiatry?

Although psychiatry helped writer Horatio Clare when he was in crisis, some people in difficulty, their families, clinicians, psychologists and psychiatrists themselves will tell you there are serious questions about the ways psychiatry understands and treats some people in trouble. And so this series asks a simple question: is psychiatry working? In the following series, accompanied by the psychiatrist Femi Oyebode, Horatio traces a journey through crisis, detention, diagnosis, therapy, and recovery. In this episode, they consider the role and place of diagnosis in psychiatry.

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Presenters: Horatio Clare and Femi Oyebode
Producer: Emma Close
Editor: Clare Fordham
Sound Mix: James Beard

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30 minutes

Last on

Mon 21 Aug 2023 21:30

Broadcasts

  • Fri 3 Feb 2023 11:00
  • Mon 6 Feb 2023 21:00
  • Mon 21 Aug 2023 09:00
  • Mon 21 Aug 2023 21:30