275. The Disrupted Mind: Noga Arikha on What Happens to Identity When the Brain Is Assaulted by Disease and Injury
The Michael Shermer Show
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Is There Such a Category as Mental Illness?
Mental illness is a social construct. It began in the 15 hundreds, or whatever date that was michel foucottat announced as the start of mental illness. I'm not a nominalist, buti way, thing is confusion here. The category mental illness is, daphne, a constructed category. We do live with it. Now. Em, what are you thoughts on that? Oh, ghost, it's really come that would need another hour and a half on that front. Well, all all of em have been great questions, but am em all right. So sure.
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