161. Roy Richard Grinker — Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
The Michael Shermer Show
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Doctor Grinker - The History of Mental Illness
i give you doctor grinker. He is the author of several books including unstrange minds, re mapping the world of atism. His book is about am the kind of social construction of mental illness. And madness and atism in a d h d, and scithophranian psychosis, neuroses, the whole gamut. A history of how we came to use those labels,. How the labels have been abused a and to stigmatized people, control people, put them in institutions. But this is not perfect. This is not exactly rocket science. Says that there's a lot of subjectivity to it. The m you know, how society treats these people, they call
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