Re "I can help feeling that banning screening (or diagnostic labelling) is
a rather unsophisticated response to a complex issue."
One objection to such screening (and its associated rag bag of normal
distributions of psychological variables, norms etc) is that it is a
procedure through which psy-technicians create and reinforce ideologies of
normality which then open the way for the 'ab'-normal to be constructed as
disability (and via dominant medical models) positioned as in need
of 'treatment' through medication which creates bigger and bigger and more
lucrative markets of consumers for big pharma. Banning screening could be
argued to be a sophisticated resonse to the psy-complex issue. Nik Rose
argues the important part of this more fully and coherently if you are
interested (and also if you are not interested).
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