{"id":2040,"date":"2012-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2012\/01\/12\/were-all-born-mad-some-remain-so-interpreting-the-psychiatric-standards-of-mental-disorder\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T09:20:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T09:20:45","slug":"were-all-born-mad-some-remain-so-interpreting-the-psychiatric-standards-of-mental-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2012\/01\/12\/were-all-born-mad-some-remain-so-interpreting-the-psychiatric-standards-of-mental-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe\u2019re All Born Mad. Some Remain So.\u201d (Beckett, 1953)- Interpreting the Psychiatric Standards of Mental Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c About a fifth of the population of the United states are seen as suffering from a mental disorder each year and about half from at least one disorder at some point in their lives.\u201d (Horwitz, 2002,3)   <\/p>\n<p>\u2022What is the reality of what psychiatrists define as mental disorder, inside and outside the standards of the psychiatric context, in relation to convention and nature?   <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe question of truth will never be posed between madness and me for the very simple reason that I, psychiatry, am already a science.\u201d(Foucault, 2006,134)   <\/p>\n<p>\u2022there are genetic and biochemical grounds for supposing that both schizophrenia and depressive disorders have a physical basis. (Gelder, Mayou, Cowen, 2001,88)   <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does man actually know about himself? Does nature not conceal most things from him &#8211; even concerning his own body?\u201d(Nietzsche, Ansell-Pearson, Large, 2006,115)   <\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u201cA postmodern scientist does not discover \u2018truth\u2019, he simply tells stories &#8211; though he has a duty to verify them within the terms of the relevant language game.\u201d (Rojek, Turner, Lyotard, 1998,68)  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA schizophrenic out for a walk is a better model than a neurotic lying on the analyst\u2019s couch.\u201d (Deleuze, Guattari, 2004,2)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleni Makrygianni, 2012, Stage 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[592,22,123],"tags":[44,85,370],"class_list":["post-2040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-592","category-abstracts","category-stage-3-abstracts","tag-foucault","tag-lyotard","tag-madness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2896,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions\/2896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}