{"id":126,"date":"2017-06-10T16:44:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T16:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lucarinfo.com\/czlucar\/?p=126"},"modified":"2025-10-09T13:15:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:15:32","slug":"united-nations-report-calls-for-radical-shift-in-psychiatry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucarinfo.com\/czlucar\/united-nations-report-calls-for-radical-shift-in-psychiatry\/","title":{"rendered":"United Nations Report calls for a radical shift in psychiatry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In a new report, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Dr. Dainius P\u016bras, calls for a move away from the biomedical model and \u201cexcessive use of psychotropic medicines\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This week, Dainius P\u016bras, a professor of psychiatry from Lithuania who has been appointed by the United Nations as an independent expert and Special Rapporteur on the right to health, presented a report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva. The report, which can be read in full <a href=\"https:\/\/documents-dds-ny.un.org\/doc\/UNDOC\/GEN\/G17\/076\/04\/PDF\/G1707604.pdf?OpenElement\">here<\/a>, calls for a radical and global \u201cshift in approach\u201d to the treatment of mental health issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"YDGPFW9PMp\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.madinamerica.com\/2017\/06\/united-nations-report-calls-revolution-mental-health-care\/\">United Nations Report Calls for Revolution in Mental Health Care<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;United Nations Report Calls for Revolution in Mental Health Care&#8221; &#8212; Mad In America\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madinamerica.com\/2017\/06\/united-nations-report-calls-revolution-mental-health-care\/embed\/#?secret=eYTYWr32KR#?secret=YDGPFW9PMp\" data-secret=\"YDGPFW9PMp\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In a new report, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Dr. Dainius P\u016bras, calls for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17,23,24,20,21,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mental-health","category-mental-health-experts","category-mental-illness-myths","category-psychiatric-researcher","category-psychiatrists-quotes","category-researchers-quotes","category-united-nations-report"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucarinfo.com\/czlucar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucarinfo.com\/czlucar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucarinfo.com\/czlucar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucarinfo.com\/czlucar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucarinfo.com\/czlucar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucarinfo.com\/czlucar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucarinfo.com\/czlucar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucarinfo.com\/czlucar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucarinfo.com\/czlucar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucarinfo.com\/czlucar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}