The very idea of mental illness is contested. Given its differences
from physical illnesses, is it right to count it, and particular
mental illnesses, as genuinely medical as opposed to moral matters?
One debate concerns its value-ladenness, which has been used by
anti-psychiatrists to argue that it does not exist. Recent attempts
to define mental illness divide both on the presence of values and
on their consequences. Philosophers and psychiatrists have explored
the nature of the general kinds that mental illnesses might
comprise, influenced by psychiatric taxonomies such as the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual and the International
Classification of Diseases, and the rise of a rival biological
'meta-taxonomy': the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC). The
assumption that the concept of mental illness has a culturally
invariant core has also been questioned. This Element serves as a
guide to these contested debates.
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