Given the proclivity of existential clinicians to acknowledge daimonic affects (i.e., anger and despair) as universal, and to avoid using stigmatizing labels to describe their patients, what is the position of existential psychotherapists on the process of psychiatric diagnosis and psychopharmacology?
a. existential psychotherapists actively refuse to diagnose clients and actively avoid the use of psychotropic medication at all costs
b. existential clinicians do not dismiss the diagnostic process, however they actively avoid the use of psychotropic medication at all costs
c. existential clinicians believe that it would be a critical error to completely dismiss the diagnostic process and the appropriate use of psychotropic medication
d. existential clinicians believe that it would be a critical error to completely dismiss the appropriate use of psychotropic medication, but actively refuse to diagnose their patients
c. existential clinicians believe that it would be a critical error to completely dismiss the diagnostic process and the appropriate use of psychotropic medication
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