Is Psychiatry Dying? Alastair Morgan

Alastair Morgan: ‘Is Psychiatry Dying? The contemporary legitimation crisis in psychiatry’
Does psychiatry know what it is for, does it have a role in the future and does it have a clear idea of its conceptual foundations ? Should we care if psychiatry withers away, and dissolves into a range of new disciplines, such as neuroscience, the science of wellbeing,  or the pragmatic management of life issues in the name of mental health recovery? In this lecture to the Durham University and Tyne, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust Joint Special Interest Group in Psychosis (JSIGP) , Dr Alastair Morgan (Sheffield Hallam University) considers new and competing ‘paradigms’ for the ontological status of psychiatry and critical psychiatry, and attempts to map a direction for the future of psychiatry in the 21st century.Slides to accompany this podcast, which was recorded on 26 March 2014, are available to download here.