From Psychology Today.  “In a recent essay, “The Ground Beneath the Clinic,” influential psychiatrist and philosopher Awais Aftab explicitly concedes that the attempt to ground psychiatric authority in scientifically discoverable disorders is no longer justified. Aftab says, “I take it for granted that the project of defining the authority of medicine and clinical disciplines in terms of disorder concepts on the basis of objective, value-free facts has failed.” This is no minor concession. It amounts to an admission that one of psychiatry’s central legitimating narratives has failed, and it is a concession to a fundamental argument that critics have been making for decades.

The crucial question, however, is what follows from this admission.”

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