Jock McLaren – The Biopsychosocial Model is a Mirage, Time for a Biocognitive Model?

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🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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On the podcast this week, we hear from Dr. Niall McLaren. Niall, known to many as Jock, is an Australian psychiatrist who worked for 25 years in the remote north of the country. Also an author, Jock's latest book is entitled Natural Dualism and Mental Disorder, the Biocognitive Model in Psychiatry, and it was published in December 2021.

Recently retired after 47 years, Jock joined me to talk about his experiences working in psychiatry and explains why the models that purport to guide psychiatric diagnosis and treatment are not what they seem.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry and social justice.
0:13.6	Hello, this is James and welcome to the podcast.
0:17.2	And our sponsor this week is the JAEC Foundation, which is hosting an international conference on open dialogue this August.
0:27.1	And you can visit the website, jaecFoundation.org, for more information.
0:33.4	And now on to our interview.
0:35.8	And this week we hear from Dr. Nile McLaren.
0:39.3	Nile, known to many as Jock, is an Australian psychiatrist who worked for 25 years in the
0:45.2	remote north of the country.
0:46.9	Jock is also an author, and his latest book is entitled Natural Dualism and Mental Disorder,
0:52.9	The Biocognitive Model in Psychiatry, and
0:56.0	it was published in December 2021.
0:59.0	Recently retired after 47 years, Jock joined me to talk about his experiences working in psychiatry
1:05.0	and why the models that purport to guide psychiatric diagnosis and treatment are not what they seem.
1:12.4	Dr. McLaren Jock, welcome.
1:14.4	Thank you so much for joining me today for the Madden America podcast.
1:18.0	So I wondered if to kind of get us underway, if you could tell our listeners a little bit about
1:22.7	you and what it was that led to your career as a psychiatrist.
1:27.6	I'm from the rural areas of Western Australia.
1:31.7	And so you study in Perth.
1:34.6	I'd never seen the university when I got there.
1:37.3	So really was quite an outsider all along.
1:41.1	But then when I graduated,
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