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@ARTICLE{Jefferson:151782,
author = {Jefferson, Anneli},
title = {{M}ental disorders, brain disorders and values},
journal = {Frontiers in psychology},
volume = {5},
issn = {1664-1078},
address = {Lausanne},
publisher = {Frontiers Research Foundation},
reportid = {FZJ-2014-01664},
pages = {130},
year = {2014},
abstract = {The debates about the normativity of mental disorders and
about the distinction between somatic and mental disorders
have long been closely linked. This is very obvious in
Szasz, who claims that there can only be brain disorders, no
mental disorders and that so-called mental disorders are
really problems in living. The implication of the latter
claim is that people who have mental disorders are really
people whose behavior and emotions depart from societal
expectations. One might therefore be tempted to think that
the normativity claim and the claim that mental disorders
are really brain disorders stand and fall together. This is
indeed what Stier claims. “Because of the normative nature
of psychiatry, mental disorders cannot be completely reduced
to neuronal or molecular processes.” (Stier, 2013, p.8)But
how close is the link between normativity and irreducibility
really? I agree with Stier that ascriptions of mental
disorders are intrinsically normative, and that what counts
as a mental disorder has to be decided at the mental rather
than at the brain level is also correct. However, the
normativity claim and the claim that physicalism does not
imply that all mental disorders are brain disorders can and
should be separated for two reasons: First, we do not need
the appeal to value judgments to justify the importance of
the mental level in description and explanation. Second, we
need to invest significant normative judgments in any kind
of ascription of disease or disorder, not just in the range
of the mental. ...},
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pubmed = {pmid:24596567},
doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00130},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/151782},
}