Dimensions of folk psychiatry
Dimensions of folk psychiatry
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DOI:
10.1037/1089-2680.9.1.35
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发表时间:
2005-03-01
影响因子:
4.2
通讯作者:
Haslam, N
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作者:
Haslam, N
This article presents a social-cognitive model of laypeople's thinking about mental disorder, clubbed "folk psychiatry." The author proposes that there are 4 dimensions along which laypeople conceptualize mental disorders and that these dimensions have distinct cognitive underpinnings. Pathologizing represents the judgment that a form of behavior or experience is abnormal or deviant and reflects availability and simulation heuristics, internal attribution, and reification. Moralizing-the judgment that individuals are morally accountable for their abnormality-reflects a form of intentional explanation grounded in everyday folk psychology. Medicalizing represents the judgment that abnormality has a somatic basis and reflects an essentialist mode of thinking. Psychologizing-ascribing abnormality to psychological dysfunction-reflects an emergent form of mentalistic explanation that is neither essentialist nor intentional. Implications for psychiatric stigma and for cross-cultural variations in understandings of the psychiatric domain are discussed.