Toward a More Constructive (and Historical) View of the Harmful Dysfunction Theory?

[...]the target of my criticism is not at all the HD theory. [...]as Bruno Karsenti explains in his commentary, this means understanding the human being as socialized from womb to tomb-body (including brain) as well as soul (i.e., under the sociocultural descriptions of what it means to count as a s...

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Published in:Philosophy, psychiatry & psychology psychiatry & psychology, 2014-12, Vol.21 (4), p.357-360
Main Author: Castel, Pierre-Henri
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Behavior
Mental disorders
Neurobiology
Neurosciences
Obsessive compulsive disorder
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Summary:[...]the target of my criticism is not at all the HD theory. [...]as Bruno Karsenti explains in his commentary, this means understanding the human being as socialized from womb to tomb-body (including brain) as well as soul (i.e., under the sociocultural descriptions of what it means to count as a self). [...]I have no problem with the idea that (to adopt Wakefield's phrasing) carving one's interiority within one's mind entails specific events in the brain tissue.
ISSN:1071-6076
1086-3303
1086-3303
DOI:10.1353/ppp.2014.0059