Defining Mental Disorder Jerome Wakefield and His Critics

Philosophers discuss Jerome Wakefield's influential view of mental disorder as "harmful dysfunction," with detailed responses from Wakefield himself. One of the most pressing theoretical problems of psychiatry is the definition of mental disorder. Jerome Wakefield's proposal that...

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Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge The MIT Press 2021
Series:	Philosophical Psychopathology
Subjects:	Psychiatry Psychology aberrant valuation abnormality adaptation adaptationism armchair Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Autism belief fixation biological design Boorse causal-role Clinical practice clinical significance criter cognitive neuroscience coherence concept of disorder conceptual analysis conduct disorder construct validation constructs Critics Cummins decline in functioning definition delusions depression descriptive detrimental consequences developmental disruption Developmental mechanism developmental mismatch Diagnostic and Statistical Manual DSM directindirect harm disability disorder distal function distress dopamine regulation DSM dysfunction dysfunction requirement environment mismatch Essentialism Evolution Evolutionary mismatch Experimental philosophy failure fever function harm harmful consequence Harmful Dysfunction Analysis Haslam imperfect community indeterminacy individual values intuition intuitions lactose intolerance latent variables Low-level mechanisms meaning analysis mechanical-causal analysis Mechanistic explanation Mental disorder modal mismatch modules natural kinds naturalism naturally selected disorder Neander neo-empiricism network theory neurodiversity normative ontogeny open concept perspectival Pluralism proper function proximal-function psychiatric classification Quine Reductionism salience system Selected-effect Spitzer Stipulation syndrome Szasz Theories of mental disorder theory-neutral variation Wakefield Wittgenstein-Kripke paradox
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