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All in the Brain? An Open Letter Re: Stephen Fry’s Assumptions...

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Stephen Fry’sĀ exploration of manic depressionĀ (in the current BBC series on mental health, ā€˜In the Mindā€˜) has drawn both praise (because of his attempts to destigmatize mental illness)Ā and criticism (because he appears to have a very narrow biomedical understanding of mental illness).Ā  I have sent an open letter to the actor which challenges some of his assumptions about mental illness, and offers a very different understanding to that promoted in his recent television programme.