TIL 311: Misrepresentations of Biological Psychiatry Part 1 (feat. Sam Stephens)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
1. A Brief History of Biological Psychiatry
2. The Influence of Media on Society's Understanding of Mental Health
3. How to Understand and Interpret Scientific Research and Data
Important Resources
- Truth in Love Episode 258 here
- Harvard Review of Psychiatry Article here
- Journal of Psychological Medicine Article here
- Positive Results and the Hierarchy of Sciences Article here
- The New England Journal of Medicine Article here
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| 0:00.0 | Misrepresentations of biological psychiatry on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:16.9 | I'm Dale Johnson and you're listening to Truth and Love, |
| 0:19.7 | a podcast of the Association of Certified |
| 0:21.9 | Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people |
| 0:26.6 | face. And this is Mental Health Awareness Month, the month of May, and as has become our |
| 0:33.0 | custom the last few years, we are addressing several different topics regarding the issue of mental |
| 0:40.3 | health. And today, we're going to entertain a topic related to biological psychiatry. |
| 0:45.0 | Now, we've talked about on the podcast, biological psychiatry in the past, episode 258, |
| 0:50.2 | this was last May. We talked specifically about biological psychiatry. We don't want to rehash all of that. |
| 0:55.2 | I would recommend that you go back and listen to that podcast, give you some information about the |
| 1:00.0 | history of it, what biological psychiatry is. Let me just summarize the idea of biological |
| 1:06.2 | psychiatry. It's trying to explain the psychological productions of man from some sort of reduced biological explanation. |
| 1:14.6 | David Pallison even in a journal Biblical Counseling editorial back in 1999 wrote this as he summarized biological psychiatry or biopsychiatry. |
| 1:25.6 | He said it's an explanation that your psyche becomes a |
| 1:29.1 | byproduct of your body. And that's the way that a lot of research in the modern, particularly since |
| 1:35.3 | 1955, really began to amp up, became prominent in 1980. And today, it's the primary way, really, |
| 1:43.1 | that we think about mental disorders, the idea of mental disorders. And today, it's the primary way, really, that we think about mental disorders, the idea of |
| 1:46.4 | mental disorders. And again, I'll sort of give you the back and forth here relative to the |
| 1:51.9 | history of biological psychiatry, where biological psychiatry sort of ebden flowed in its |
| 1:56.5 | emphasis in history. It's certainly more recent the last several hundred years between what's called |
| 2:01.1 | romantic psychiatry, and that's more of your moral therapy or your talk therapy. This would be |
| 2:06.4 | Freudian psychoanalysis. This would be your humanistic talk therapy approaches. And those two things |
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