Is psychiatric research scientific?

Cooper, Rachel

doi:10.1093/med/9780199238033.003.0002

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“…All the demarcation criteria that have been proposed so far, between science and non-science, and between science and pseudo-science, have been abandoned under the pressure of compelling counterexamples. As a result, philosophers who are interested in the status of psychiatry have stopped asking whether psychiatry is a science and have become more concerned with the scientific credentials of specific aspects of psychiatric practice, such as classification (Cooper 2009) and explanation (Murphy 2006). …”

Section: The Role Of Rationality In Psychiatric Classification and DImentioning

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The Oxford Handbook of Psychiatric Ethics, Volume 2

2014

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and KeywordsIn this chapter, our focus is the role played by notions of rationality in the diagnosis of mental disorders, and in the practice of overriding patient autonomy in psychiatry. We describe and evaluate different hypotheses concerning the relationship between rationality and diagnosis, raising questions about what features underpin psychiatric categories. These questions reinforce widely held concerns about the use of diagnosis as a justification for overriding autonomy, which have motivated a shift to mental incapacity as an alternative justification. However, this approach too has recently been criticized from a mental disability rights perspective. Our analysis of the relationship between mental capacity and rationality is used to illuminate these concerns, and to investigate further the relationship between rationality and psychiatric diagnosis.

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Section: The Role Of Rationality In Psychiatric Classification and DImentioning

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Is psychiatric research scientific?

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