Developing concept
Diagnostic Capture
How provisional diagnoses acquire authority through records and institutional systems.
A developing area of Monica Ross’s research on classification, documentation, and institutional memory.
Area of inquiry
This inquiry follows the movement of psychiatric interpretations across clinical, administrative, and technical settings without treating that movement as neutral or predetermined.
Questions in development
The research asks when a provisional interpretation becomes difficult to question, what supports revision, and how a person’s account remains available to later readers.