Faucher, Luc <br/><br/>
Defining Mental Disorder : Jerome Wakefield and His Critics 

 - Cambridge  The MIT Press  2021 
 - 1 electronic resource (640 p.) 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> Philosophers discuss Jerome Wakefield's influential view of mental disorder as “harmful dysfunction,” with detailed responses from Wakefield himself. One of the most pressing theoretical problems of psychiatry is the definition of mental disorder. Jerome Wakefield's proposal that mental disorder is “harmful dysfunction” has been both influential and widely debated; philosophers have been notably skeptical about it. This volume provides the first book-length collection of responses by philosophers to Wakefield's harmful dysfunction analysis (HDA), offering a survey of philosophical critiques as well as extensive and detailed replies by Wakefield himself. HDA is offered as a definition of mental disorder, but it is also the outcome of a method—conceptual analysis—and contributors first take up HDA's methodology, considering such topics as HDA's influences on the DSM, empirical support for HDA, and clinical practice. They go on to discuss HDA's ultimate goal, the demarcation between normal and abnormal; the dysfunction component of the analysis, addressing issues that include developmental plasticity, autism and neurodiversity, and the science of salience; and the harmful component, examining harmless dysfunction, normal variation, medicalization, and other questions. Wakefield offers substantive responses to each chapter. Contributors Rachel Cooper, Andreas De Block, Steeves Demazeux, Leen De Vreese, Luc Faucher, Denis Forest, Justin Garson, Philip Gerrans, Harold Kincaid, Maël Lemoine, Dominic Murphy, Jonathan Sholl, Tim Thornton, Jerome Wakefield, Peter Zachar 
<br/><br/><br/>Creative Commons 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>mitpress/9949.001.0001 9780262362931 9780262045643 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.7551/mitpress/9949.001.0001  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Psychology<br/>Psychiatry
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Psychiatry disorder dysfunction harm Wakefield Diagnostic and Statistical Manual DSM function Harmful Dysfunction Analysis Mental disorder Evolution DSM Critics Spitzer distress disability harmful consequence dysfunction requirement Experimental philosophy proper function Theories of mental disorder theory-neutral conceptual analysis armchair Pluralism intuitions Clinical practice concept of disorder Haslam constructs Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder definition psychiatric classification Quine biological design naturally selected disorder environment mismatch Essentialism open concept construct validation latent variables imperfect community neo-empiricism decline in functioning Szasz network theory Stipulation meaning analysis abnormality Selected-effect causal-role Boorse descriptive natural kinds Cummins intuition Mechanistic explanation perspectival coherence Developmental mechanism developmental mismatch adaptation Evolutionary mismatch modal           mismatch depression fever lactose intolerance Neander proximal-function distal function conduct disorder developmental disruption Low-level mechanisms salience system dopamine regulation aberrant valuation delusions adaptationism cognitive neuroscience mechanical-causal analysis belief fixation syndrome Autism modules ontogeny neurodiversity Reductionism naturalism Wittgenstein-Kripke paradox normative failure indeterminacy variation detrimental consequences individual values directindirect harm clinical significance criter