Psychiatric validity depends on consensus because no lesions anchor disorders

Evidence

One had the right to talk of validity when one could establish a relationship between a syndrome and a lesion or a pathological process that was its cause (reliability being concerned only with an agreement on the identification of the syndrome). And where mental disorders were concerned, such validity could only be determined in a consensual manner. — Alain Ehrenberg, The Weariness of the Self, 719

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sharpens the reliability-versus-validity distinction that underlies all epidemiological psychiatry.
• XREF: connects to: Doctors required lesions to accept illness without delirium as real. — Alain Ehrenberg, The Weariness of the Self: Diagnosing…, 276; Cerebral trauma’s identity metamorphosis must not reduce to any Freudian libidinal cause. — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 1737; Anosognosic self-denial is organic, not psychological in origin — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 1193 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Cerebral trauma’s identity metamorphosis must not reduce to any Freudian libidinal cause. #exemplifies (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 1737
• Psychoanalysis is only a temporary phase awaiting neurological confirmation #expands (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 437
• Anosognosic self-denial is organic, not psychological in origin #complicates (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 1193