How to Stop Discrimination and Mental Illness

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Discrimination and genera conformity do not cause mental illnesses, but they do cause stigma. If culture puts stigma and mental illness together, culture can surely begin to take them apart. Thats that's a great closing paragraph. Thank you for your work. You v been a pleasure talking with you for this pis. i'd like to do a special thank you to our new sponsor, ground news which is an ap you get on your phone that looks like this. But not from the left or the right, or any particular a mediabias, but from all different perspectives, with a a bias grating for each particular story. Now let me tell you why i love this at because here

For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In episode 161 of The Michael Shermer Show, Dr. Shermer speaks with anthropologist Dr. Roy Richard Grinker about his book Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness which chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma — from the 18th century, through America’s major wars, and into today’s high-tech economy. Drawing on cutting-edge science, historical archives, and cross-cultural research in Africa and Asia, Grinker takes readers on an international journey to discover the origins of, and variances in, our cultural response to neurodiversity. Shermer and Grinker discuss: the DSM, ADHD, PTSD, the autism spectrum, schizophrenia, labels and stigma, neuroses vs. psychoses, mental vs. medical models, brain/mind dualism, blacks and drapetomania, homelessness and mental illness, and the future of madness and normalcy.