The Importance of Diagnosing Pathological Disorders

The challenge in psychiatry is to distinguish what is sadness and what is depression. How do you decide whether something is pathological? And really, what is the point of deciding that something is pathology? When you say that somebody has an illness, you are actually giving them a license to enter into the role of a patient.

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