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The practical close. Your diagnosis is probably useful and probably not literally true simultaneously. How to hold that. What to take from the folk systems; what to take from the clinical ones; and how to stop outsourcing the map of your own mind to either.
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RDoC; the NIMH's attempt to replace DSM categories with biological dimensions. Polygenic risk scores. Real imaging correlates. Where the actual science is going versus where clinical practice is stuck.
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The direct comparison. Retest reliability; predictive validity; mechanistic basis. The MBTI performs worse than the Big Five on every psychometric measure and is used everywhere. Astrology performs comparably and is considered embarrassing. The difference is institutional laundering.
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The autism and ADHD communities reframing diagnosis as variation rather than pathology. What happens to the whole diagnostic edifice if disorder is a context-dependent judgment rather than a biological fact.
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Szasz; Laing; Foucault. Diagnosis as social control. Madness as rational response to insane conditions. They overcorrected badly but were pointing at something the mainstream still hasn't absorbed.
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A significant portion of foundational psychology research doesn't replicate. The studies your diagnosis rests on; the trials that approved your medication. What the replication crisis actually means for clinical practice and why it hasn't changed anything yet.
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The Wakefield fraud, the Tylenol preprint, the WiFi studies. The toxin framework that lets you plug any environmental villain into the autism slot. The actual epidemiology. The dark irony of the anti-vax movement.
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Diagnosis rates by zip code, by school district, by whether your state has high-stakes testing. The stimulant prescription map follows socioeconomic and educational pressure patterns, not neurological ones.
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The serotonin hypothesis was never proven. It was a plausible mechanism attached to a drug that worked better than placebo in some trials. The chemical imbalance explanation was marketing copy that became folk science.
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No biomarkers. No blood tests. Five of nine symptoms for two weeks. The insurance reimbursement architecture that made the checklist system immortal. Follow the money from symptom cluster to prescription pad to quarterly earnings.
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1973. American Psychiatric Association membership vote. A disease category gone by ballot. What this reveals about what the DSM actually is. Not a scientific document. A consensus document.
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Myers-Briggs is Jungian astrology with corporate HR approval. The MBTI has roughly the same test-retest reliability as a horoscope and is used in Fortune 500 hiring. Nobody talks about this.