For an outsider, the Lancet Psychiatry's Commission on the future of psychiatry¹ allows a revealing insight into psychiatry's self-conceptualisation, the profession's ambitions, and its hopes. Globally, psychiatry seems to be experiencing a kind of identity crisis, which the Commission largely resolves to address through the vigorous scientific pursuit of the “clinical biomarkers [that] remain elusive”. In part, psychiatrists are constructed as brain doctors who are part of a helping profession, and with a desire not to be isolated from their physical-health colleagues.

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重新谈判合同

对于局外人来说，柳叶刀精神病学委员会关于精神病学的未来¹可以揭示精神病学的自我概念，专业抱负及其希望。在全球范围内，精神病学似乎正在经历一种身份危机，委员会在很大程度上决心通过对“仍然难以捉摸的临床生物标记”的科学追求来解决这一危机。在某种程度上，精神科医生是由脑科医生组成的，他们是帮助专业的一部分，并希望与他们的身体健康同事保持隔离。