From Mad in the UK: Political commentators and activists sometimes seem to imagine that psychiatric diagnoses are uncontroversial. They write as though depression, for example, were as firmly-established and scientifically evidenced as, say, diabetes. This has the effect of reifying psychiatric diagnoses – of making them appear more real, more concrete, more legitimate. It also works to undermine critiques: of diagnosis, and of psychiatry more generally. We see this from commentators across the political spectrum. However, it is especially disappointing and unhelpful when it comes from the Left.
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