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Psychiatry After Postmodernism

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ā€œIf language is inherently unstable, then how can we hope to diagnose illness accurately?ā€ asks psychiatrist Mark Salter in an article for iai news. ā€œNaming things, abstract or concrete, is a form of categorization,ā€ but, he adds, ā€œit is important to remember that our categories say more about the categorizer than the categorized.ā€