Antirealism Will Not Save the DSM From Empirical Inadequacy
These proper sciences or pseudosciences presume a disenchantment that allows the true self to be independent of what it feels.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
Delusions are a reality. But the content of delusions is, by definition, unreal.
Mark Goldblatt • I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism
fundamental claims of modern American psychiatry 1 are not based on well-tested research but on science that is itself a bit mad: misconceived, flawed, erroneous, misinterpreted, and often misreported.
Stuart A. Kirk • Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs: 0
We can understand it as real because it has ontological or creative effects not explicable by human agency or science alone. But precisely because it is metaphysical, it must remain for the analyst, an epistemic placeholder – a locus pointing to something beyond.