Engelsk titel: Psychiatric diagnoses - for the best of the patient?
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Författare:
Ekeland, Tor-Johan
Email: tje@hivolda.no
Språk: Nor
Antal referenser: 36
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 17030134
Sammanfattning
Diagnosis in psychiatry is now and then contested. One reason is the steady growth of such diagnosis
since the eighties. How can this development be understood? In this article the claim is made that the
expansion is not grounded in knowledge and scientific progress, or in clinical effectiveness. The diagnostic
expansion must foremost be understood in a historical context, caused by a combination of two
processes: the psychiatric profession’s ambition to legitimize itself as scientific; sociocultural changes
which have posed new challenges to individuals, and a new logic of governing in the welfare state.