Pathologizing the Normal,Individualism, and Virtue Ethics |
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Authors: | R. Steve Harrist Frank C. Richardson |
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Affiliation: | 1. School of Applied Health and Educational Psychology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA 2. University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
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Abstract: | Recently, a number of distinguished critics have raised fundamental questions about the knowledge claims and practices of the mental health professions. We review a few of these critiques concerning such matters as pathologizing normal experiences and reactions to events and spreading not only our brain disease conception of mental illness but our Western “symptom repertoire” as well around the globe in a detrimental manner. It is striking that for the most part these critics have almost nothing to say about genuine alternatives to the problems and cultural deficits they identify. We suggest that work done by theoretical psychologists and others working in a similar vein in recent years might help both sharpen the analysis of these dilemmas and contribute something valuable to envisioning alternative therapeutic and cultural pathways of a better sort. |
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