Dr Andrew Amos - The Politicization of "Mental Health" in Australia
The National Conservatism Institute of Australia Podcast · Dan Ryan
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Show Notes
My guest today is psychiatrist, Dr Andrew Amos who has been an outspoken critic of gender ideology in psychiatry as well as other aspects of the way medicine is practiced in Australia today.
Today we discuss:
1. What is the governing political philosophy is which governs his profession and how and why this politicization occurred
2. What we have lost in abandoning the more paternalistic approach that used to characterise the doctor patient relationship in favour of one which is more liberal and defers too much to the subjective wishes of the individual
3. The threat that over-diagnosis of "mental health" issues poses a risk to demographic self-government and whether therapy is being overused
4. Whether we have lost something in discarding older traditional mechanisms that people used to deal with mental suffering and pain
And much much more