2021
DOI: 10.1002/jhbs.22148
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Abstract: Drawing on personal testimonials and questions addressed to psychiatric hospital officials, this article explores how patients and their loved ones engaged with the idea of diagnosis in interwar and war-era America. I argue that diagnosis had synergies with intellectual sensibilities of American modernity, among them an enthusiasm for science and newness, a modernist sense of time that could be both forward-and backward-looking, and a knowable, interpreted self. While self-understanding and the creation of lif… Show more

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“…Showing this can be a helpful way of reflecting on the dangers and limits of current diagnostic practices, and in patient records we may see signs of patient resistance to the labels. We also must simultaneously remember, though, that many psychiatric patients have valued diagnoses as, for example, a validation of the realness of their illness experience (see Callard, 2014; Moran, 2022, Murray, 2020).…”
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“…Showing this can be a helpful way of reflecting on the dangers and limits of current diagnostic practices, and in patient records we may see signs of patient resistance to the labels. We also must simultaneously remember, though, that many psychiatric patients have valued diagnoses as, for example, a validation of the realness of their illness experience (see Callard, 2014; Moran, 2022, Murray, 2020).…”
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confidence: 99%