72. David Cohen: Rethinking Mental Health

David Cohen is a professor of social welfare at UCLA. His research looks at psychoactive drugs (prescribed, licit, and illicit) and their desirable and undesirable effects as socio-cultural phenomena “constructed” through language, policy, attitudes, and social interactions.

Today we chat about... 

• What piqued David's interest in mental health
• Where he thinks the mental health model is going wrong
• What makes someone psychotic as opposed to not psychotic
• How drugs fail to stabilize people
• David’s thoughts on the chemical imbalance theory
• When you’re at most risk to commit suicide
• What the mental health system aims for
• The two different pathways to involuntary commitment
• The dark heart of involuntary commitment 
• David's thoughts on medicating and diagnosing children
• Why psychiatric medication is not like insulin

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