72. David Cohen: Rethinking Mental Health
Episode description
David Cohen is a professor of social welfare at UCLA. His research looks at psychoactive drugs (prescribed, licit, and illicit) and their desirable and undesirable effects as socio-cultural phenomena “constructed” through language, policy, attitudes, and social interactions.
Today we chat about...
- What piqued David's interest in mental health
- Where he thinks the mental health model is going wrong
- What makes someone psychotic as opposed to not psychotic
- How drugs fail to stabilize people
- David’s thoughts on the chemical imbalance theory
- When you’re at most risk to commit suicide
- What the mental health system aims for
- The two different pathways to involuntary commitment
- The dark heart of involuntary commitment
- David's thoughts on medicating and diagnosing children
- Why psychiatric medication is not like insulin
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