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straightening out the "mental illness" problem

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sun, 10/17/2010 - 6:34pm.

Some very useful conversation, both in class and below.  Yes, there is an enormous grey zone between mental health and "illness," with a lot of cultural convention involved in the latter.  And yes, we could probably do a lot about "stigmatization" if we didn't generalize from particular behaviors to a whole person/"illness."  For more along these various lines, see

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