Psychiatric Diagnosis as Recognition in Disorder Identified Individuals

• DOI: 10.1353/ppp.2023.a908279
• Publication Date: 2023-09-29T09:13:09Z
• Authors: Chloe Saunders
• Keywords: Stigma; Psychiatric diagnosis

Abstract: Psychiatric diagnoses are increasingly seen as viable categories around which self and social identities might be drawn. This introduces a new pressure on the “boundary problem” for psychiatry: when members of public request to affirm their self-identities how should we draw line between mental disorder normality? If psychiatrists have authority recognize diagnose disorder, can roles diagnosers gate-keepers balanced in post-stigma era health care? Focusing identified would-be patient who would not attract diagnosis they seek were it, this essay explores what it means an identity bound psychiatric considers framework negotiate clinical encounters that involve seeking affirming diagnoses.