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In this chapter,I look at the implications of accepting the drug-centred model of psychotropic drug action for the theoryand practice of psychiatry. Firstly Iexamine what the drug-centred model means for our understanding of the nature of psychiatric conditions. Then Hook at what psychiatrycould be like if it based its approach to drug treatment on a drug-centred model, and how drug research and development would differ from their current emphasis.
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Moncrieff, J. (2008). Democratic Drug Treatment: Implications of the Drug-Centred Model. In: The Myth of the Chemical Cure. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-58944-5_13
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