The Limits of Psychiatric Diagnosis

The recent issue of Time magazine discusses the controversy surrounding Rodney Yoder's hospitalization for mental illness. Experts are slugging it out on the edge of the diagnostic frontier, staking their reputations on whether he should be considered normal, psychotic, delusional, paranoid, criminal, etc. Aside from shifting him from one diagnostic label to another, apparently, no one has yet offered a penetrating understanding of his unique personality or a clue of how he might be approached therapeutically. If sufficient background information were available, including earliest childhood recollections, it would be interesting to attempt an Adlerian life style analysis and treatment plan.

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