Wake-up call for British psychiatry: responses

Abstract

Comments on an article by Nick Craddock et al. (see record [rid]2008-09305-004[/rid]). The interpretation in The Times of Craddock et al. risks alienating multidisciplinary colleagues and patients alike, turning a call for quality services into an appeal for primacy for the psychiatric profession. We agree with Craddock et al. that psychiatry can have a great future, but only by embracing teamwork, abandoning hegemony and accepting the importance of social and psychological as well as biological determinants of mental ill health, rather than harking back to a past which was actually far from ideal. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)