A CRITICAL REAPPRAISAL OF A SOCIAL FORM IN PSYCHIATRIC-CARE SETTINGS - THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM MEETING AS A PARADIGM CASE

Critical analysis can be used to examine potential inequalities and in terferences with freedom in psychiatric nursing contexts, Multidiscipl inary team meetings (MDTM) evoke a sense of egalitarian multiparty coo peration, when underlying philosophical, Ideological assumptions and r ealities can operate to contradict consciously held beliefs, Tradition al approaches toward structural aspects of organizations are built on several conventional and taken-for-granted assumptions, Deconstruction and critical analysis can create alternate ways of thinking about fix ed aspects of practice, The MDTM can be analyzed through different ima ges, Underlying realities about the disempowerment of nurses and patie nts in the team structure can be shown through such analysis. Copyrigh t (C) 1995 by W.B. Saunders Company