Defining Mental Disorder Jerome Wakefield and His Critics

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