Is psychiatry shrinking what's considered normal?
- Written by Nick Haslam, Professor of Psychology, University of Melbourne
Vijay Sadasivuni/PexelsPsychiatric classifications catalogue the many forms of mental ill-health. They define what counts as a disorder and who counts as disordered, drawing the boundary between psychological normality and abnormality.
In the past century that boundary has shifted radically. Successive classifications have added new disorders and...





