If you’ve followed my work for any length of time, or you have been in my lectures or training, you’ll know I’ve been teaching about the instability and harm of psychiatric diagnosis for years. The cracks in the system are not new. They are structural. They are conceptual. They are epistemological.
Psychiatry and the DSM are Cornered – So They Reach for ‘Neuro’
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Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment, segment, section of this curve can be transformed (transformed one-sidedly) into an independent, complete, straight line, which then (if one does not see the wood for the trees) leads into the quagmire, into clerical obscurantism (where it is anchored by the class interests of the ruling classes). Rectilinearity and one-sidedness, woodenness and petrification, subjectivism and subjective blindness—voilà the epistemological roots of idealism. And clerical obscurantism (= philosophical idealism), of course, has epistemological roots, it is not groundless; it is a sterile flower undoubtedly, but a sterile flower that grows on the living tree of living, fertile, genuine, powerful, omnipotent, objective, absolute human knowledge.
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 
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