New Vision for Psychiatry | Jim van Os | Madness Radio

What if psychiatry recognized that schizophrenia does not exist? How might diagnostic categories (left over from the asylum era) be replaced by spectrums of experience? What if services were oriented around individuals, not the statistical groups of "evidence based" research? And could a new definition of health as empowerment, not the absence of disease symptoms, replace the mental health system as we know it? Jim van Os, professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology at Maastricht University and membe...