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Understanding the psychological processes that lead to unconscious biases.
Exploring the unconscious biases in psychiatric practice, to do with how meaning is understood post the enlightenment age when reason (defined by the West) is privileged and how that affects how people’s stories (formulations) are subordinate to the science of psychiatry, which is not as robust as we believe.
Additionally, the course explores antiracist and feminist critiques and relates patriarchy to the gendered patterns in psychiatry (lower diagnosis of depression in men; higher BDP in women etc) and intersections between aspects of identity as evidenced in data, such as race and gender or gender and sexual orientation.
The exercises help delegates to see how racialised understandings and heteronormative and established gender norms influence their practice unconsciously and how this shows up in patterns in data not solely due to AMHP practice but failures to take account of pertinent information