This cuts both ways. A psychologist might say, "People with no knowledge of psychology often relabel mental illness as genius." A critic of psychology might say

This cuts both ways. A psychologist might say, "People with no knowledge of psychology often relabel mental illness as genius." A critic of psychology might say, "Psychologists with no knowledge of natural human society often relabel genius as mental illness." Asperger Syndrome, which famously and regularly did relabel genius as mental illness, has been thrown out of the new edition of the official diagnostic guide, but with little effect on its diagnosis rate (I still hear from parents whose children have been given this diagnosis, more than a year after it was officially abandoned). My theory about psychology is that if you're gainfully, productively employed doing something that fewer than 1% of people can do, it might not be mental illness, it might be a positive evolutionary adaptation. But that's just my opinion (and that of the chair of the NIMH, and his predecessor). Depression can have many causes. I can think of a really deplorable but easily avoidable one -- being told by people in pseudo-authority that your natural gifts actually stand as proof that you're mentally broken.