What is it to have a mental disorder? The paper proposes an ability-based view of disorder. It argues that such preferable biological dysfunction views as Wakefield’s Harmful Dysfunction Analysis and Boorse’s Biostatistical Theory. According the proposed view, having disorder basically matter certain type inability (or: ability not sufficiently high): respond adequately some one’s available rea...

BACKGROUND We examined the recent reasons for hindering antipsychotic medications during pregnancy in Japan. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed the medical charts of all women who gave birth after 22 weeks' gestation at Japanese Red Cross Katsushika Maternity Hospital from August 2016 to July 2017. RESULTS Four pregnant women with mental disorders (three schizophrenia and one adjustment di...

from mistakes and learn from experience, to engage in logical reasoning, to control impulses, and to understand the reactions of others . . . . Their deficiencies do not warrant an exemption from criminal sanctions, but they do diminish their personal culpability . . . . With respect to retribution—the interest in seeing that the offender gets his “just deserts”—the severity of the appropriate ...

Adam Graycar Director A review of international literature examining the link between mental disorder and violent criminal behaviour suggests that, although a small number of mentally disordered individuals engage in violent criminal behaviour, the vast majority is unlikely to commit homicide. This study, based on available information in police reports, found that only 4.4 per cent of Australi...

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Despite the availability of effective interventions, most individuals with social anxiety disorder do not seek treatment. Given their fear of negative evaluation, socially anxious individuals might be especially susceptible to stigma concerns, a recognized barrier for mental health treatment. However, very little is known about the stigma specific to social anxiety disorder. In a design similar...