Vincenzo Di Nicola - The Crisis in Psychiatry and The Slow Way Back
Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health
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🗓️ 22 December 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Vincenzo Di Nicola is an Italian-Canadian child and adolescent psychiatrist and a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Montreal where he co-directs the postgraduate course in psychiatry and the humanities. He has written extensively about the importance of relationality and dialogue in therapy and is one of the leading figures of social psychiatry.
Most recently, he received the 2022 Distinguished Service Award from the American Psychiatric Association. Di Nicola's most recent book Psychiatry in Crisis (co-authored with Drozdstoj Stoyanov) offers a critical analysis of the discipline and points to the glaring gaps that must be addressed.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry, and social justice. |
| 0:13.4 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Mad in America podcast. This is your host for today, |
| 0:18.7 | Ayyrdi Dhar, assistant Professor of Psychology at Mount Mary University. |
| 0:23.7 | In the spotlight today, we have with us the highly distinguished Dr. Vincenzo DiNicola, |
| 0:28.9 | who is an Italian-Canadian child and adolescent psychiatrist and a professor of psychiatry at the University of Montreal. |
| 0:37.0 | He co-directs a postgraduate course and psychiatry and the humanities, |
| 0:41.3 | which is an incredibly unique combination. |
| 0:45.3 | He has written about the importance of relationality and dialogue and therapy, |
| 0:49.3 | about the social in psychiatry, |
| 0:51.3 | and most recently about the deep crisis in the very being of psychiatry. He has |
| 0:58.0 | received numerous awards, written multiple books and articles, too many to note here and honestly too |
| 1:03.7 | many to count. So, Dr. Vincent Zedatatol, welcome to Matt in America. Thank you so much. It's |
| 1:10.7 | really a pleasure to be with you. I'm not a stranger to Matt in America. Thank you so much. It's really a pleasure to be with you. |
| 1:12.4 | I'm not as stranger to Matt in America. I'm happy to say. Not only am I a reader of it, I consult |
| 1:20.4 | fairly regularly because I find it very intriguing. And I frankly have discovered really |
| 1:24.4 | interesting things that are going on in the field, not to mention how people feel about how my profession is doing. |
| 1:30.0 | And I'm also happily, Matt in America has been very kind in reviewing some of my work. |
| 1:35.8 | Very warmly, I must say, but there's a kind of interesting difference because the reviewers have stated some of my article, some of |
| 1:46.3 | points of you, almost better than I could. I was very, very gratified. However, the readers are not |
| 1:52.3 | so gratified. I mean, they say, yeah, you know, these are nice things, but he's still a shrink. |
| 1:57.8 | And I think that's a very, very interesting issue to engage. It's not my specialty. It's not |
| 2:03.9 | something I've given a lot of thought to. But I do believe that my profession needs to answer those |
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