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The Mental Health Diagnosis: History, Validity and Implications

3/8/2017

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Today’s Diagnosis is Tomorrow’s Joke

​A former client recently sent me a list of reasons for admittance to a psychiatric hospital between the years of 1864-1889.  The list was being shared on the internet as a joke, highlighting how many mental health diagnoses back then now sound like potential names for heavy metal bands.  I laughed.  Then I found myself thinking about the implications the list of old diagnoses has on today’s formal diagnoses.

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