Are labels like autism and ADHD more constraining than liberating? A clinician argues diagnosis has gone too far
- Written by Nick Haslam, Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
National Cancer Institute/UnsplashThe Anatomy of Melancholy was written more than 400 years ago, but Robert Burton’s masterpiece is strangely modern. Although it brims with quaint language and Latin quotes, it also resembles a medical textbook: a compendium of the symptoms, causes, prognoses and treatments of human misery.
Take Burton’s...
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