The central argument of On Being Normal and Other Disorders is that
psychic identity is acquired through one's primary intersubjective
relationships. Thus, the diagnosis of potential pathologies must
also be founded on this relation. Given that the efficacy of all
forms of treatment depends upon the therapeutic relation, a
diagnostic of this sort has wide-ranging applications. The author's
critical evaluation of the contemporary DSM-diagnostic shows that
the lack of reference to and governing metapsychology impinges on
the therapeutic value of the DSM categories. In response to this
problem, the author sketches out the foundations of such a
metapsychology by combining a Freudo-Lacanian approach with
contemporary empirical research. Close attention is paid to the
processes of identity acquisition to show how the self and the
Other are not two separate entities. Rather, subject formation is
seen as a process in which both the subject's and the Other's
identity, as well as the relationship between them, comes into
being.
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