Externalist psychiatry

Psychiatry widely assumes an internalist biomedical model of mental illness. I argue that many of psychiatry’s diagnostic categories involve an implicit commitment to constitutive externalism about mental illness. Some of these categories are socially externalist in nature.

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Main Author: Davies, W
Format: Journal article
Published: Oxford University Press 2016
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