The risk of diagnostic ideology in child psychiatry
Adapted from Searching for Normal: A New Approach to Understanding Mental Health, Distress and Neurodiversity. (Penguin Random House Canada/Signal, 2025.)
February 1992. I’m in the consulting-room side of a one-way mirror divide. Opposite us in the room are four people: thirteen-year-old Sofia, her older sister Julieta, and their mother and father. The parents speak with a strong Spanish accent. The girls’ mother has an anxious look on her face. She …
