 Not only the social and personal effects of diagnosis in individual lives and within mental health care, but also the societal face of psychiatric care, are achieving belated recognition. Recent data on the effects of the biogenetic explanations regularly accompanying diagnosis of mental disorder advocates for greater attention to these attitudes: research findings cannot be read as evidence of embodied defectiveness, with patients reduced to broken mechanisms; instead, patients must be brought to be aware that “their agency and optimism are not dissolved if their problems have a biological dimension” (Haslam &amp; Kvaale 2015: 402–403).