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There are two philosophical arguments one encounters again and again in critical psychology and critical psychiatry. They go like this:
1. "The diagnosis of autism and ADHD are based on the same circular logic as other psychiatric diagnoses. We decide that a certain set of problems should be called X. If you experience these problems, we say you “have X”. X is then reg...
I've noticed over the years that scientifically minded psychologists tend to collapse all explanation and understanding into a causal form. If I ask 'how?' or 'why?' questions about human behaviour, thought, or feeling, what I'm inexorably after, they seem to suggest, are causes. The idea of there being different kinds of causes - e.g. the three kinds met with in the b...