Jerome Wakefield

Jerome C. Wakefield is a professor of social work in the Silver School of Social Work at New York University. Much of his work is in the history and philosophy of psychiatry. He is noted for his "harmful dysfunction" analysis of mental illness, which he positions between the anti-psychiatry viewpoint of the social construction of mental illness and the conventional view in mainstream psychiatry that such illnesses can be objectively diagnosed based on a set of symptoms. His writings on mental illness have attracted considerable attention, including a 1999 issue of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology that was dedicated to his views on the topic.[1] He was elected a member of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare in 2020.[2]

Jerome Wakefield
Born
Jerome Carl Wakefield
EducationQueens College
University of California, Berkeley
Known forWork on psychiatric nosology and the philosophy of psychiatry
Scientific career
FieldsSocial work
InstitutionsNew York University
ThesisDo unconscious mental states exist? Freud, Searle, and the conceptual foundations of cognitive science (2001)
Doctoral advisorJohn Searle

References
  1. "Jerome C. Wakefield". Silver School of Social Work. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
  2. "Jerome Wakefield, PhD". American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. Retrieved 2022-11-22.


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