Category Archives: Ethics

Redefining “Mental Illness”

I came across an interesting article from SeedMagazine.com (now defunct) about the changes in thinking about mental illness and its organic origins. A short clip from the article: Redefining “Mental Illness”   “British psychologist and editor Christian Jarrett answered the … Continue reading

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Happiness as a psychiatric disorder

From the Journal of Medical Ethics comes an article that is very much tongue in cheek about how disorders are classified. A whole other issue in the area of psychiatric classifications is how certain disorders seem to be ‘popular’, i.e. … Continue reading

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