The Judgment Inside Harmful Dysfunction

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Deciding what an internal mechanism was designed to do imports value judgments that are not purely medical.

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Whether low mood after a loss is a mechanism working correctly or failing depends on what the mechanism is taken to be for.

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This is why diagnostic boundaries move between editions. The data change less than the judgment does.

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