Psychiatric Categories as Natural Kinds: Essentialist Thinking about Mental Disorder.(Abstract)

From: Social Research | Date: December 22, 2000| Author: HASLAM, NICK | Copyright information

IN a penetrating ethnographic study of American psychiatry, Tanya Luhrmann (2000) comes to a troubling diagnosis. At the end of the century, psychiatric practice, theory, and training are riven by a deep divide between two ways of understanding mental disorder. These orientations--the biomedical and the psychodynamic--have lived in uneasy coexistence for several decades, struggling to dictate the terms in which mental disorder is classified, formulated, and treated. Now, Luhrmann a...

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