Diagnosenes makt over sinnene: refleksjoner om diagnoser og diagnosekritikkens mangler
Engelsk titel: The diagnose's power over the mind: reflections on diagnoses and lack of diagnosis criticism
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Författare:
Madsen, Ole Jacob
Email: o.j.madsen@psykologi.uio.no
Språk: Nor
Antal referenser: 51
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 17030133
Sammanfattning
In this article I will provide an overview of the problem of psychiatric diagnoses in terms of validity and
reliability, as well as supposedly negative consequences like «narrowing of normality», «reification» and
«stigma». Although this critique is still relevant, I will show that the critique, like its object of critique,
rests on a dubious foundation of knowledge, and has been repeated so many times that it has become
«truths». In conclusion, I suggest «a third way» where one neither accepts diagnosis as universally valid
categories or erroneous constructions, but as a preferred way to organize disorder as pragmatic tools
that both can be and not be suitable.