Box 3.

Summary of “post-psychiatry” (from Bracken and Thomas²³)

• Faith in the ability of science and technology to resolve human and social problems is diminishing

• This creates challenges for medicine, particularly traditional psychiatry

• Psychiatry must move beyond its “modernist” framework to engage with recent government proposals and the growing power of service users

• Post-psychiatry emphasises social and cultural contexts, places ethics before technology, and works to minimise medical control of coercive interventions