R.D. Laing in his book "The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness"
considers psychopathology not through narrow definitions that stigmatize and label a person but through an approach that reconsiders DSM through a humanistic and social perspective.
“A little girl of seventeen in a mental hospital told me she was terrified because the Atom Bomb was inside her. That is a delusion. The statesmen of the world who boast and threaten that they have Doomsday weapons are far more dangerous, and far more estranged from 'reality' than many of the people on whom the label 'psychotic' is fixed.”
“This last possibility [of developing psychosis] is always present if the individual begins to identify himself too exclusively with that part of him which feels unembodied.”
R.D. Laing
In the Colors of the Sunrise, the reader explores psychopathology as a functional, and dysfunctional knowledge, related to the DSM. That way learns to think responsibly and hold the potential to reason. Psychiatric diagnosis and the Diagnostic Statistic Manual (DSM) often have two faces. When we use them to fight against madness and discover psychopathology they are essential. When they are considered without a person-centered and humanistic approach, they may result in wrong conclusions about the existence of a mental disorder.
This is often disregarded as an opportunity to get healed; a person through developing their reason and acquiring mindfulness that mental illness is something that they can control, they benefit from counseling, without losing their identity.
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