ABSTRACT
The quest for wisdom is the opposite of a treatment. Human relations-and the suffering they generate-have been analyzed by all kinds of social scientists and are now the new frontier of neuroscience. The problem raised by the term "mental disorders" has been much clearer than its solution, and, unfortunately, the term persists in the title of DSM-IV because we have not found an appropriate substitute. Psycho-technicians administer the tests and the results are presented as objective. The calculations, for sure, are objective and the statistical analysis can help detect psychological deficiencies, or psychosocial pathology, which is a negative finding that has value to filter the undesirable applicants. The horrors of racism and sexism have at their core a rigidifying of identities. Maybe the best historical demonstration of the impossibility of defining the normal personality is given by the history of the clinical judgment of homosexuality.
