
#57. Psychiatry Made the Bipolar Child Inevitable
To question a diagnosis today is to trigger a moral reaction.In contemporary psychiatry, diagnostic categories no longer function merely as clinical tools. They increasingly operate as moral identities, conferring legitimacy, status, and exemption from blame. When criteria are questioned, the response is often not clinical disagreement but moral accusation.
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