Pathologizing the Normal, Individualism, and Virtue Ethics

摘要: Recently, a number of distinguished critics have raised fundamental questions about the knowledge claims and practices mental health professions. We review few these critiques concerning such matters as pathologizing normal experiences reactions to events spreading not only our brain disease conception illness but Western “symptom repertoire” well around globe in detrimental manner. It is striking that for most part almost nothing say genuine alternatives problems cultural deficits they identify. suggest work done by theoretical psychologists others working similar vein recent years might help both sharpen analysis dilemmas contribute something valuable envisioning alternative therapeutic pathways better sort.