- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Cognition
- Chapter 2 Affectivity
- Chapter 3 Desire
- Chapter 4 Character
- Chapter 5 Action
- Chapter 6 Self-ascription
- Chapter 7 Memory
- Chapter 8 Body
- Chapter 9 Identity
- Chapter 10 Development
- Chapter 11 Diagnosis/Antidiagnosis
- Chapter 12 Understanding/Explanation
- Chapter 13 Reductionism/Antireductionism
- Chapter 14 Facts/Values
- Chapter 15 Gender
- Chapter 16 Race and Culture
- chapter 17 Competence
- Chapter 18 Dangerousness
- Chapter 19 Treatment and Research Ethics
- Chapter 20 Criminal Responsibility
- Chapter 21 Religion
- Chapter 22 Darwinian Models of Psychopathology
- Chapter 23 Psychoanalytic Models
- Chapter 24 Phenomenological and Hermeneutic Models
- Chapter 25 Neurobiological Models
- Chapter 26 Cognitive-Behavioral Models
- Chapter 27 Social Constructionist Models
- Chapter 28 Setting Benchmarks for Psychiatric Concepts
- Chapter 29 Defining Mental Disorder
- Chapter 30 Mental Illness and Its Limits
- Index
Diagnosis/Antidiagnosis
Diagnosis/Antidiagnosis
- Chapter:
- (p.163) Chapter 11 DIAGNOSIS/ANTIDIAGNOSIS
- Source:
- The Philosophy of Psychiatry
- Author(s):
- Jennifer Radden
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter argues that diagnosis—the scientific activity of sorting and labeling disorders—is imbued with moral, social, and political meaning. It explores diagnosis as characterization, as disclosure, as relevance, as privilege, as rationality, and as ritual. Diagnosis is considered a way of life and a language game of the greatest cultural significance: it cannot be reduced to the labeling practices that its critics have so vociferously decried.
Keywords: diagnosis, labeling, medicalization, reductionism, psychiatric power, values
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Cognition
- Chapter 2 Affectivity
- Chapter 3 Desire
- Chapter 4 Character
- Chapter 5 Action
- Chapter 6 Self-ascription
- Chapter 7 Memory
- Chapter 8 Body
- Chapter 9 Identity
- Chapter 10 Development
- Chapter 11 Diagnosis/Antidiagnosis
- Chapter 12 Understanding/Explanation
- Chapter 13 Reductionism/Antireductionism
- Chapter 14 Facts/Values
- Chapter 15 Gender
- Chapter 16 Race and Culture
- chapter 17 Competence
- Chapter 18 Dangerousness
- Chapter 19 Treatment and Research Ethics
- Chapter 20 Criminal Responsibility
- Chapter 21 Religion
- Chapter 22 Darwinian Models of Psychopathology
- Chapter 23 Psychoanalytic Models
- Chapter 24 Phenomenological and Hermeneutic Models
- Chapter 25 Neurobiological Models
- Chapter 26 Cognitive-Behavioral Models
- Chapter 27 Social Constructionist Models
- Chapter 28 Setting Benchmarks for Psychiatric Concepts
- Chapter 29 Defining Mental Disorder
- Chapter 30 Mental Illness and Its Limits
- Index