Chapter Summary<\/summary>\nThis chapter explores psychological diagnosis as a site of power, identity, and negotiation, using the concept of interpellation to examine how individuals are \u2018hailed\u2019 into diagnostic categories, and how they may resist, reinterpret, or reclaim these labels. The chapter shows how the removal of homosexuality from the DSM exemplifies diagnosis not as a neutral classification but as a dynamic and contested social act. Through historical analysis and five key case studies (PTSD, ADHD, autism, schizophrenia, and CFS\/ME), the chapter traces how diagnoses are shaped by expert authority, political activism, and lived experience. It examines the epistemological frameworks used to construct diagnostic knowledge, the ontological consequences of being named, and the power struggles that determine what counts as a disorder. By drawing on the dialectical model of interpellation, the chapter invites a critical engagement with diagnosis as a process of naming and being named, a two-way conversation between clinicians, patients, institutions, and communities. Diagnosis, it argues, is a cultural and political performance that shapes who we are and who we are allowed to become.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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