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Clinical psychology

the analysis that a mental disorder is a failure of an internal mechanism to perform its natural function that is also judged harmful by social values.

In clinical psychology, harmful dysfunction refers to the analysis that a mental disorder is a failure of an internal mechanism to perform its natural function that is also judged harmful by social values. This meaning comes from Wakefield (1992) in American Psychologist.[1]

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References

Wakefield, J. C. (1992). The concept of mental disorder: On the boundary between biological facts and social values. American Psychologist, 47(3), 373-388. https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066x.47.3.373

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