It's difficult. For many reasons. One is meeting the practioners and their lack of conceptual knowledge. For all the ills of psychiatrists there's at least that saving grace: they know their stuff. They have to of course. They're experts and powerholders.
The psychosocial paradigm has battled to find purchase. It has public support, especially with the use of the distress continuum, but in the echelons of power it is still fighting for dominance. This is changing in recent times as psychiatry's biomedical options face the onslaught of evidence.
The psychosocial paradigm as a concept is poorly understood. This is the key problem. Without the crystalised concepts it is just another dogma rather than pursuit of scientific pursuit.
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