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

Mad in America

Yet we too rarely discuss the harm that psychiatric treatment does to a persons self-concept and self-narrative. One of the purported positive effects of psychiatric diagnoses is the relief a person may feel when an expert tells them how and why they suffer. And this is sometimes true, at least in the short run.