I had the opportunity to present my Rights-based Existential Psychiatry (REP) and Dynamic Eclectic Existential Psychopharmacotherapy (DEEP Therapy) at the McGill Student Wellness Hub April Huddle.
This work emerges from a simple but often overlooked starting point: know the person in front of you first. From there, it attempts to bring together two domains that have long existed in parallel yet remain largely unintegrated: human rights and existential philosophy.
REP offers an ethical framework grounded in dignity, autonomy, and participation. DEEP Therapy attempts to operationalise this in clinical practice through a flexible, patient-centred, and transdiagnostic approach that remains attentive not only to symptoms but also to meaning, freedom, isolation, and mortality.
At its core, this is not an argument against psychiatry as it exists, but an invitation to widen its lens: to move from treating “disorders” to engaging with persons, from reducing distress to understanding its place within the human condition.
This presentation reflects ongoing scholarly work currently under peer review. It is shared here for academic discussion and reflection rather than as a definitive or final model.