TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints1026
UR  - http://cogprints.org/1026/
A1  - Richters, John E.
A1  - Hinshaw, Stephen P.
Y1  - 1999///
N2  - The evolutionary cornerstone of J. C. Wakefield's (1999) harmful dysfunction thesis is a faulty assumption of comparability between mental and biological processes that overlooks the unique plasticity and openness of the brain?s functioning design. This omission leads Wakefield to an idealized concept of natural mental functions, illusory interpretations of mental disorders as harmful dysfunctions, and exaggerated claims for the validity of his explanatory and stipulative proposals. The authors argue that there are numerous ways in which evolutionarily intact mental and psychological processes, combined with striking discontinuities within and between evolutionary and contemporary social/cultural environments, may cause non-dysfunction variants of many widely accepted major mental disorders. These examples undermine many of Wakefield's arguments for adopting a harmful dysfunction concept of mental disorder.
PB  - American Psychological Association
KW  - Mental Disorder
KW  -  Evolutionary Psychology
KW  -  Psychopathology
KW  -  Classification
KW  -  Taxonomy
KW  -  Dysfunction
KW  -  DSM
TI  - The Abduction of Disorder in Psychiatry
SP  - 438
AV  - public
EP  - 445
ER  -

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