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mental "disorders": their adaptive sides?

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sun, 10/24/2010 - 11:45am.

For more along these lines,  see Thinking more about depression as "adaptive."  And I very much share your thought that it might make sense to focus at least as much on what mental "disorders" make possible as what they make more difficult. 

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