Dr Huda's presentation explores the role of the medical model in mental health, drawing parallels between psychiatry and general medicine. He discusses the nature and validity of diagnosis, classification and treatment within this model as well as highlighting shared conceptual and philosophical issues that often pertain to the rest of medicine as well psychiatry.
Dr Ahmed Samei Huda works as a consultant psychiatrist in the National Health Service in a deprived area to the east of Manchester in the UK. In addition to general adult psychiatric patients, much of his clinical work is devoted to the Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) service. Although he is from Scotland, he has lived in England for half of his life and has also spent about a year working as a psychiatrist in Australia. He is the author of The Medical Model in Mental Health: An Explanation and Evaluation (Oxford University Press, 2019).
Presented for West of Scotland Speculative Psychiatry Group on 19/3/21.
Many thanks to Dr Huda for his time and wisdom.
