What Is a âMental Disorderâ?

May is Mental Health Awareness month , but the term "mental health" is loaded with debatable philosophical suppositions.

The American Psychiatric Association releases a new version of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) with each new edition, its list of mental disorders grows.

Peter Bergen : Mental illnesses are identified on the basis of symptoms alone.

The Many don’t arise from the One ; the Many are the One , the ontological status of a mental disorder remains elusive.

To be told that a person has mental disorder is only to be told the challenging experiences with which one contends are those that a committee of psychiatrists has decided to label a “disorder”.