Doctor Grinker - The History of Mental Illness

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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

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.