Philosophy 2044F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Homicide, Socalled, Ecological Niche
20 Apr 2018
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It"s gi(cid:448)e(cid:374) authority in areas beyond its competence thus considered as a bible. Intellectual conflict of interest, arrogance, secretiveness, and passive governance, administrative disorganization lead to such issues in dsm: an organization needed to regulate this situation and take over apa, national institute of. Me(cid:374)tal health (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:271)e a(cid:374) optio(cid:374) (cid:271)ut it"s too resear(cid:272)h orie(cid:374)ted a(cid:374)d i(cid:374)se(cid:374)siti(cid:448)e to this. May lead to hyper medicalization hyper narrativity in consumers of psychiatric services: commercialization in area of pharmacology + social media altered the nature and scope of medicalization. As individuals are labeled with the chosen nosological term or category for a disorder, they often come to adopt the disorder as their own, a feature of themselves. There is also the risk of self-harm through self-medicalization, cases where consumers stand to suffer on account of their allegiance to a label and self-conception or lifestyle that is not ultimately in their best interest. The myth of mental illness - thomas szasz:
