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1. diagnoses and labels "People Who experience mood swings, fear, voices and visions" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 14:15:21 -0800 From: Sylvia Caras <[email protected]> Subject: diagnoses and labels Psychiatric diagnoses are imperfect, sketchy theories about how people's minds can give them trouble. ...The great intellectual challenge of clinical psychology is to integrate knowledge about reasons and people with knowledge about causes and mechanisms. We should avoid relying solely on diagnostic information, but we shouldn't discard it altogether. https://aeon.co/ideas/a-psychiatric-diagnosis-can-be-more-than-an-unkind-label www.peoplewho.org ------------------------------ End of IRIS Digest - 16 Feb 2020 to 22 Feb 2020 (#2020-6) *********************************************************
