Naming suffering: What is a diagnosis?

Sooner or later, in life, we have all received a diagnosis.An expert comes to us, or we go to them, and they utter some words that can sometimes change the course of our lives, for better or for worse.Words like “cold,” “gastritis,” “sore throat,” “ADHD,” or “major depression.” Well then, what do these words have in common? Why do we call all of them “diagnoses”?Every other Monday, at 12pm.Follow us on:Instagram: ⁠mirror_podcast_⁠Substack: ⁠In front of the mirror⁠This project exists in Italian as well: ⁠In Front of the Mirror - Il Podcast in italiano⁠References:Hacking, I. (1995). The looping effects of human kinds. In D. Sperber, D. Premack, & A. J. Premack (Eds.), Causal cognition: A multidisciplinary debate (pp. 351–394). Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press.Lingiardi, V. (2018). Diagnosi e destino. Einaudi.Lingiardi, V. (2021). Arcipelago N. Variazioni sul narcisismo. Einaudi.Sadler, J. Z. (2004). Diagnosis/antidiagnosis. In J. Radden (Ed.), The philosophy of psychiatry: A companion (pp. 163–179). Oxford University Press