Psychiatry in Ireland: A Lot Done, More to Do
Kelly, B.D.
Four decades ago, in April 1979, Time magazine printed a dramatic cover story titled “Psychiatry’s depression”, diagnosing psychiatry with “a bad case of mid-life blues” 1. The magazine pointed to a lack of knowledge about the biology of mental illness, recruitment problems into the profession, uncertainties about treatments, and the inadequacy of community care. Precisely forty years later, in April 2019, the Economist magazine, in a very similar tone, referred to “today’s crisis in the psychiatric profession” 2 and, the following month, the New Yorker cited many of the same problems again in an article about “psychiatry’s fraught history” 3.
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