Against pathology. The new psychiatry and its critics.
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Abstract
The notion of 'pathology' presumes an experiential and socially embedded frame of reference which is at variance with some recent attempts to understand the procedures and subject matter of psychiatry. Psychiatric theories remain bound by individual and historical contingencies whose compelling urgency obfuscates the inter-relationship of phenomenon, social context, response, and explanatory model.
Medical subject headings
- Biological Psychiatry
- Mental Disorders
- Psychiatry