What Diagnosis Left Behind: Towards a Situated, Humane Psychology

From Mad in South Asia: “During my internship at a mental health facility, a 15-year-old boy was brought in. The first few notes on his chart were stark and unsettling. He was being referred for what was described as homicidal ideation and psychopathic tendencies. His teachers feared him, his peers avoided him, and the psychiatric team seemed already poised to pathologize him. But something didn’t sit right with me.”

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