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Mental Health in Academia: A Conversation with Roy Richard Grinker

New Books in Education

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Is There a Mental Illness?

In both of the societies that ive worked with in central africa and in nimibia, one is not sick when one doesn't have symptoms. So you look at one guy that i write about named thomso who walks ten, 12 miles every month barefoot to get his anti psycotic medications. He is only considered sick in his village when he is experiencing symptoms, and they are controlled right now by this medicine. But if you go to the place where he gets the san from, a north a, a north european, i think is norwegian, aangie, they see him as someone who is a scitzophrenic. They've labelled

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