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A critical framework that applies dialectical materialism to understanding mental health, illness, and psychiatric practice. It views mental disorders not as isolated biochemical defects but as expressions of contradictions within the individual’s relationship to their social, historical, and material environment. For example, depression may arise from the contradiction between social expectations and lived reality; psychosis may reflect an inability to reconcile irreconcilable pressures. Historical‑dialectical psychiatry critiques the reductive biomedical model that ignores social determinants, while also rejecting purely subjective or idealist approaches. It sees treatment not as merely correcting biological imbalances but as helping the patient resolve real contradictions—through changes in material conditions, social relations, and self‑understanding.
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