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The search for ‘the medical model’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Lionel Joyce
Lionel Joyce*
Affiliation:
Newcastle Mental Health NHS Trust, St Nicholas Hospital, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne NE3 3XT
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This article attempts to describe a senior manager's search for ‘the medical model’ in psychiatry in two large provincial teaching units. I was brought to a number of realisations and moved to write this article by watching the film ‘Awakenings’∗. This portrays with great sympathy and effectiveness the angst and real pain suffered by a neurologist watching his patients in relapse and being powerless to help them. This was reminiscent of many of my consultants describing their own feelings.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 16 , Issue 11 , November 1992 , pp. 714 - 715
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1992
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