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Does the Psychiatric Diagnosis Process Qualify as a Degradation Ceremony?

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Michael Cornwall, PhD

September 7, 2013

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Sociologist Harold Garfinkel, in his landmark article “Conditions For a Successful Degradation Ceremony” wrote that “Degradation ceremonies are those concerned with the alteration of total identities.”