The Transnational Condition: Protest Dynamics in an Entangled Europe
The Transnational Condition: Protest Dynamics in an Entangled Europe
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跨国状况:错综复杂的欧洲的抗议动态
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10.1080/10848770.2014.927236
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2014
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Francis D. Raška
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Francis D. Raška
DSM-5, 2013). I agree with the author that current models are insufficient to explain psychiatric disorders. The problem is that we just don’t know enough about brain and mind to come up with something reasonable. Moreover, no one has been able to come up with a generally accepted definition of mental disorder. Many have tried, but all attempts founder on the lack of any clear boundary between health and illness. The best we can do is to agree about people with severe mental disorders, and to argue about those with mild ones. The problem of overdiagnosis, not touched on in the text, is a serious one. Although this book was published in 2006, with the introduction of DSM-5, the problem of diagnostic validity has moved to front and center. While there is much of interest in this book, my main criticism is that it does not grapple with the serious limitations of biological psychiatry. Rooting disorders in the findings of cognitive neuroscience is a visionary idea, but not very practical. We are decades away from solving problems of enormous complexity. And we will still need a model that integrates the biological, the psychological, and the social. I would have liked the book to move beyond abstract ideas and grapple with the practical consequences of our current psychiatric paradigm. People going through normal crises are being routinely prescribed medication, and this book has little to say about alternative methods, such as psychotherapy. Finally, as a researcher in personality disorders, I would have liked to hear more about these conditions, which cannot be simply dismissed as “problems in living.” While there is a nice discussion of psychopathy, all the author has to say about borderline personality (and he says it twice) is that there are too many ways of reaching the diagnosis in the current DSM system. Perhaps this reflects the perspective of a philosopher who has never spent an evening working in an emergency room.