ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the value-laden nature of the classification of disorders (nosology) in psychiatry. Guidry-Grimes challenges the assumption that creating classifications of mental illness can be done without making value judgments about health and well-being. She argues further that these values not only fail to neutral, but are indexed to social context in which they are produced. She introduces the reader to the consumer/survivor/ex-patient (c/s/x) movement, in which people diagnosed or treated for mental illness contest the biomedical interpretations of mental illness.
