Diagnosing psychological disorders is as straight forward as diagnosing medical problems.
Many people assume that diagnosing psychological disorders is as straight forward as diagnosing medical problems.
The medical model is therefore focused on physical causes and largely ignores environmental or psychological causes. There are also ethical issues in labelling someone mentally ill – Szasz says that, apart from identified diseases of the brain, most so-called mental disorders are really problems of living.
Is this assumption correct? Why or why not