Project MUSE – What Makes a Disorder ‘Mental’? A Practical Treatment of Psychiatric Disorder
The titular question, of what makes a disorder ‘mental,’ has an obvious answer: mental disorders are disorders of the mind.1 Some have been so certain about this view that they have suggested revising the domain of psychiatry, or changing the status of psychiatry, in order to make psychiatry and its domain fit with their scientific or philosophical views of the mind. I argue, however, that the…