161. Roy Richard Grinker — Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Problem of the Heap in Psychiatry
Psychiatrists are making some kind of subjective decision. That's not really scientific. It's just like, that's enough. How do they make those decisions? The point usually is when there is undue sufferingsignificant enough suffering that your life is impaired. When you get from sadness to depression, that's when you can't sleep. And so that's when these diagnostic categories can become really useful,. because they do provide a framework that then motivates a certain kind of intervention.
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