Posted by Dinah on September 14, 2006, at 9:52:10
In reply to Re: internet and the manufacture of madness... » Dinah, posted by alexandra_k on September 14, 2006, at 9:19:37
I suppose this would be the sentence
"an excessive dependence on and a demanding attitude towards others"
It seems that there could be a more neutral way to put that. I had one yesterday, but I can't bring it to mind right now.
I think that the issue about rather pscyh diagnoses are value laden is a most important one. Clearly the mental health community itself has decided they *can* be, since they have removed various "illnesses" from the DSM. But I also get the feeling that the Axis II disorders especially are culturally based, and do have a values judgement built into them. An ideal of "healthy" that is tied into what the community values. Isn't it generally agreed that some disorders listed in the DSM (esp. Axis II) would not be considered disorders in some parts of the world? And that in other parts of the world, there might be diagnoses of people who weren't sufficiently affiliative? Clearly if someone could go to a different society with the same set of "symptoms" and be judged fine there, and ill here, then the judgement of illness is based on a lack of adherence to customary cultural norms rather than a true illness?
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