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This seems a little... sketchy. Who gets to define what the "ideal human" is? If the ideal can change, doesn't that make classifying mental illness completely
by umvi 7y ago
This seems a little... sketchy.
Who gets to define what the "ideal human" is?
If the ideal can change, doesn't that make classifying mental illness completely subjective?
If so, doesn't that mean you can essentially declassify your own mental illness if you can normalize it via political and social vectors?
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- 50656E6973 7y ago>Who gets to define what the "ideal human" is? Psychiatrists/the authors of the DSM. >If the ideal can change, doesn't that make classifying mental illness completely subjective? Yes, it is completely subjective: "psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests" -Allen Frances, Chairman of DSM-IV https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Frances https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Frances