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The Harmful Consequences of Diagnostic Categories

April 12, 2013 by Susan Bodnar

Youthful Tendency Disorder, a term coined by The Onion, pokes fun at diagnostic categories.  It satirizes the modern psychiatric and psychological observation of pathology in normal behavior. Given the numbers of people suffering from serious and sometimes life threatening mental illness, is this humor fair?

Filed Under: human interaction, mental illness Tagged With: alternatives to psychiatric medication, David Gups, Overdiagnosis, overmedicatiing, relationships and mental illness, Richard Fee, Ted Gups, youthful tendency disorder

Susan Bodnar, Ph.D

Relational Psychologist


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