Norm as a Criterion of Pathology in Mental Health Care Sciences – a Methodological Perspective
Jan F. Terelak Abstract This theoretical paper aims at assessing scientific status of the notion of ‘norm’ in clinical psychology and psychiatry. The author analyses methodological consequences of three models of the norms that function in social sciences: (a) quantitative (statistical), (b) cultural (qualitative), (c) theoretical (ideological), and three models functioning in clinical psychology and…