On the Need for a Language of Psychopathology (and its Critique)

Bureaucratic pseudo-difference prevents us from engaging in a critique of the language of psychopathology by simply denying that that language is available.

Late capitalist society relentlessly forces a language upon its subjects that prevents things from appearing as wrong, defective, or pathological. Whatever good the term “ableism” has done, it is now at the point in the short history of its use where it weighs down on thinking. “Crazy,” “psychotic,” “autistic,” “insane,” and the like have all become off…