British psychiatrist who critiques psychiatric diagnoses as merely labels for clusters of behaviors rather than identifications of underlying physical mechanisms.
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"This is a clip from a longer interview, in the previous part he explains in detail how actual medical diagnoses are about identifying an underlying physical mechanism for visible symptoms, e.g. diabetes is a specificc failure of the insulin system, symptoms are an outward indication of that. By cont"
"Timmi is great on the issue of scientism and medicalization in psychiatry. His web site is here. He's written a number of books including a new one just out in the UK, 'Searching for Normal'."