Posted by KenB on October 30, 2000, at 20:33:43
In reply to Does Mental Illness Exist? Feedback Requested!, posted by pullmarine on October 29, 2000, at 21:18:59
From the Lawrence Stevens, JD citation:
“[Goodwin suggests] a narrow definition of disease that requires the *presence* of a biological abnormality" (ibid). In this pamphlet I will show that there are no biological abnormalities *responsible* for so-called mental illness, mental disease, or mental disorder, and that therefore mental illness has no biological existence”
Stevens does not address the proposed definition. The narrow definition, based on “presence of a biological abnormality” does not require a “biological abnormality responsible.”
Commentators often attempt to discredit studies that show correlations between biological indicators and mental problems in an effort to counter aggressive marketing of psychopharmaceuticals and related diagnoses. To casually dismiss evidence of biological patterns that correlate with mental difficulty serves to complicate the identification of biological indicators of social and cultural problems that likely contribute to mental difficulties.
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