We need to rethink how we classify mental illness | Tamara Kayali Browne

Psychiatric diagnosis must serve an ethical purpose: relieving certain forms of suffering and disease. Science alone can't do that

How do we decide what emotions, thoughts and behaviours are normal, abnormal or pathological?

This is essentially what a select group of psychiatrists decide each time they revise the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), a bible for mental health professionals worldwide.