Reviewing Paul Bloom on Psychopathology

Our suffering, our diagnosis and our treatment are far from objective or apolitical. If you are a marginalised person, your experience of all three of these things is likely going to be worse.

In psychiatry there is a certain condition known as “delusion of reprieve.”

This is the real tragedy of our cultural psychologization of diseases we don’t understand: the ways such dismissals leave patients to suffer alone, their condition turned into a character flaw.

In some ways, the distinction between normalcy and pathology is arbitrarily defined—as well as hard to measure.