"I don't think racism is a mental illness, and that's because 100 percent of
people are racist,"
...said Dr. Paul Fink, in WAPO ("Psychiatry Ponders Whether Extreme
Bias Can Be an Illness").
"If you have a diagnostic category that fits 100 percent of people,
it's not a diagnostic category."
We already have diagnostic categories for delusions, obsessions,
anxiety, phobias, and depression. Do we need a separate category for
"pathological bias?" Would it change our approach to these patients?
Would their treatment be any different? Should we be doing research to
find out? Personally, I don't buy this, but is that just my prejudice?
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