Knox, Bennett (2022) The Institutional Definition of Psychiatric Condition and the Role of Well-Being in Psychiatry. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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This paper draws on Quill Kukla’s “Institutional Definition of Health” to provide a definition of “psychiatric condition” that delineates the proper bounds of psychiatry. I argue that this definition must include requirements that psychiatrization of a condition benefit the well-being of 1) the society as a collective, and 2) the individual whose condition is in question. I then suggest that psychiatry understand individual well-being in terms of the subjective values of individuals. Finally, I propose that psychiatry’s understanding of collective well-being should be the result of a “socially objective” process, and give certain desiderata for this understanding.

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Knox, Bennett bennett.knox@utah.edu
Keywords:	psychiatry, well-being, pathologization, health
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Medicine > Health and Disease Specific Sciences > Medicine Specific Sciences > Medicine > Psychiatry General Issues > Science and Society General Issues > Values In Science
Depositing User:	Bennett Knox
Date Deposited:	17 Jul 2022 06:31
Last Modified:	17 Jul 2022 06:31
Item ID:	20906
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Medicine > Health and Disease Specific Sciences > Medicine Specific Sciences > Medicine > Psychiatry General Issues > Science and Society General Issues > Values In Science
Date:	14 July 2022
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/20906

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