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1 - The Need for a Model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2020

Sanneke de Haan
Sanneke de Haan
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Tilburg University, The Netherlands
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In her article ‘Why Psychiatry Is the Hardest Specialty’, Dew (2009) sketches the everyday difficulties of psychiatric practice. She writes, ‘Being a psychiatrist means dealing with ambiguity all the time … I go to work and listen to someone describe a vague uneasiness felt for a lifetime. Then after about 45 minutes I’m asked to assign it a name’ (p. 16). Of course, as Dew remarks, assigning a name to something does not make it true.

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Enactive Psychiatry , pp. 1 - 15
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • The Need for a Model
  • Sanneke de Haan, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
  • Book: Enactive Psychiatry
  • Online publication: 18 February 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108685214.002
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  • The Need for a Model
  • Sanneke de Haan, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
  • Book: Enactive Psychiatry
  • Online publication: 18 February 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108685214.002
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  • The Need for a Model
  • Sanneke de Haan, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
  • Book: Enactive Psychiatry
  • Online publication: 18 February 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108685214.002
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