“…While MHFA training does not equip trainees to provide official diagnosis, MHFA training furthers the psychiatrization of distress by promoting psychiatrybased ways of "seeing and saying" (Foucault, 1994, p. xi;Mills, 2014), diagnostic "styles of thought" (Marsh, 2010, p. 31;Rose, 2000), and diagnostic styles of listening (Anderson, 1997, p. 135), thus fostering diagnostic "sensibilities and sensitivities" (Shotter, 2010, p. v). Despite the stark absence of scientific bio-marker evidence for mental illness (Moncrieff, 2013;Rose, 2016), mental illness diagnoses apply not only to the mind but the whole person; psychiatric diagnoses are totalizing, "fully general," (Gergen, 1994, p. 150), thereby producing a deviant social identity (Goffman, 1963). Oblivious to the social significance of socio-political factors, the DSM classification system dismisses non-psychiatric understandings (American Psychiatric Association, 2013).…”