Psychiatric Diagnosis and the Power of Names
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6436142 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Claire R Chang (0000-0003-1085-7107, Independent scholar and clinician, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, corresponding author), Ronald Bassman (MindFreedom International, Eugene, OR, USA) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 767-789 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Humanistic Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1678 • E-ISSN: 1552-650X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022167819852786 |
| OpenAlex | W2948556432 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 47 |
Psychiatric diagnosis is accepted and pervasive in mental health care and adjoining social systems throughout the world. The recognition of the inadequacy of diagnosis in advancing positive outcomes and healing is prompting the search for alternatives to diagnosis. While there is progress in seeking alternatives, we must be clear on the nature and depth of challenges associated with psychiatric labeling to achieve meaningful movement forward. To these ends, this article explores the intention, use, function, and impact of select naming practices from developmental, social, cultural, religious, and historical reference points. In studying the role of naming in our human development and making evident the parallel workings of naming systems from sociocultural history and that of diagnosis, the often obscured ways in which psychiatric labels are harmful becomes clearer. The authors offer a perspective drawn from a synthesis of their education, clinical work, lived experience of extreme mental states, and the challenges of growth and development while carrying psychiatric labels
Epistemology · Power (physics · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Mental Health Treatment and Access · Philosophy · Psychology
Naming and identity
Personal Names in Asia
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Diagnostic Cultures
Evolution of public attitudes about mental illness
The stigma of mental illness
The socialization of gender differences in emotional expression
Attitudes of Mental Health Professionals Toward People With Schizophrenia and Major Depression
Stigma
Social Role Theory
Reclaiming Through Renaming
Uncertainty–Identity Theory
Theory and Typology of Proper Names
Outsiders
Correlates and consequences of internalized stigma for people living with mental illness
What’s in a Name? The Genealogy of Holocaust Identities
From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Naming practices and the importance of kinship networks in early nineteenth-century iceland
Who would take whose name?’ Accounts of naming practices in same‐sex relationships
The impact of middle names
First Names and Crime
Gender identity
The acquisition of gender labels in infancy
Psychological Formulation as an Alternative to Psychiatric Diagnosis
The Labelling Theory of Mental Illness
The family story
Measuring mental disorders
Slave Naming Patterns
Being Mentally Ill
Stigma of a Label
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |