Psychology / Unit 12 Psych 1314 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Judgment Inside Harmful Dysfunction
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The idea
Deciding what an internal mechanism was designed to do imports value judgments that are not purely medical.
In practice
Whether low mood after a loss is a mechanism working correctly or failing depends on what the mechanism is taken to be for.
Where people slip
This is why diagnostic boundaries move between editions. The data change less than the judgment does.
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