Chapter 8 of Vagueness in Psychiatry – aka ‘gradualist approaches to mental health and disease – is scribed by Lara Keuck and Allan Frances and resolves around the subject of, you guessed it, ‘what is normal’ and ‘what is not [normal]’ <--love this, hadn't thought of it like that before! The book was released today in paperback and can be succinctly summed up as:
Blurred boundaries between the normal and the pathological are a recurrent theme in almost every publication concerned with the classification of mental disorders. However, systematic approaches that take into account the philosophical discussions about vagueness are rare.
Now that’s for the book as a whole, but here are some excerpts from Chapter 8:
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