“Are Understandings of Mental Illness Mired in the Past?”

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In The Psychologist, Vaughan Bell of Mind Hacks and John Cromby debate how we ascribe meanings and values to the biological elements of psychological problems as they try to answer the question, “Understandings of mental illness – mired in the past? Are psychological conceptions stuck in the 20th century?”

Mind Hacks provides links to the full text of the debate.

Towards a nuanced view of mental distress (Mind Hacks, December 12, 2014)

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