This talk challenges the dominant medical model of mental health treatment, which pathologizes individual distress and reduces human suffering to diagnostic codes and brain chemistry. Drawing on decades of clinical experience, historical research, and personal narrative, the speaker critiques the clinical gaze—a concept developed by Michel Foucault to describe the objectifying stance of modern medicine—and its enduring influence on psychiatry and psychology.

The presentation explores how the medical–pharmaceutical alliance has marginalized relational, contextual, and meaning-based approaches to psychological care. It advances a compelling case for a paradigm shift: from treating symptoms in isolation to understanding people in relationship, in history, and in the full complexity of their lives.

https://pch-treatment-center.ce-go.com/virtual-presentation-of-beyond-the-clinical-gaze

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