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Depsychiatrization: Dispelling Harmful, Diagnostical Self-Concepts in Therapy and Community Health Work

Mad in America

What does it mean for an individual to perceive of themself as pathologically disordered in the mind? And none better to start with than the diagnoses labeled personality disorders. I was employed for two years in the Danish psychiatric system in an outpatient clinic treating people diagnosed with so-called personality disorders.