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Defining Mental Disorder
Jerome Wakefield and His Critics
Edited by Luc Faucher and Denis Forest
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
© 2021 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This work is subject to a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND license.
Subject to such license, all rights are reserved.
The open access edition of this book was made possible by generous funding from Arcadia—a
charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Faucher, Luc, 1963– editor. | Forest, Denis, editor.
Title: Defining mental disorder : Jerome Wakefield and his critics / edited by Luc Faucher
and Denis Forest.
Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021] | Series: Philosophical
psychopathology | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020016671 | ISBN 9780262045643 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Wakefield, Jerome C. | Psychiatry--Philosophy. | Mental illness--Philosophy. |
Mental illness--Diagnosis. | Mental illness--Classification.
Classification: LCC RC437.5 .D434 2021 | DDC 616.89--dc23