 There is no question that values have played a role in discourse on mental disorder. The question remaining is whether moral values are inescapably attached to the conceptualization and classification of mental disorders at the level of theorizing, forming an inherent part of their definition. Such “evaluativism” (“normativism”, or “constructivism”) is placed in contrast to “objectivism” (“naturalism”), which seeks a value-free, naturalist account of mental disorder. Debates over these questions have dominated philosophical research in psychiatry and psychopathology for decades, many played out around attempts to define mental disorder in ways that are value-free (see  §4).  (Objectivist or naturalist conceptions have implications well beyond these academic debates, it should be added. For example, a related societal issue with practical consequences concerns the expectations around a value-free medicine in those assigning, and subject to, diagnoses, regardless of the facts of the matter.)