Sublime

to define something as mentally abnormal is merely to say that it deviates from the norm — that is to say, the social norm.

Diagnosis in psychiatry is a problem. After all, there are no lab tests that conclusively pinpoint a diagnosis, there are a host of overlapping symptoms (especially in children’s disorders), and each person experiencing an illness expresses it through the unique filter of mind and temperament. The psychiatrist’s main diagnostic instruments are the

In The Coddling of the American Mind, Lukianoff and Haidt chart a dramatic decrease in young people’s resilience and ability to cope with difficult ideas and hurt feelings. The authors do not belittle these struggles, but emphasize that they are a painful consequence of the acceptance of three “Great Untruths.” These are the belief that people are

A term that is referenced in the law is least restrictive environment.

specter.

Case histories do demonstrate more what’s wrong with psychology than with its cases. The clinical stories show how usual psychology—and we are each affected by its style of thought—draws its conclusions by working backward from the ordinary to the extraordinary, taking the “extra” right out of it.

Julius Wagner-Jauregg was a 19th-century psychiatrist with two unique skills: He was good at recognizing patterns, and what others saw as “crazy” he found merely “bold.”

Nassir Ghaemi , a psychiatrist at Tufts, in his 2010 book with the telling title: ‘The Rise and Fall of the Biopsychosocial Model’ [2]. Ghaemi argues that the model is vague, too general, tells us nothing specific of value, hence is inefficient and sometimes distracting; it ‘gives mental health professionals permission to do everything but no speci