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When does it become an addiction? Well, i guess if you lose your job and your spouse leaves you. That's exactly right. You know, there's a proliferation of categories out there. And sometimes, even though we think that menal les categories are, you know, somewhat objective, because there are symptom checklists,. they are applied differentially on location, based on class, based on, i mean, in nobody's normal. I talk about the history of doctors misdiagnosing african american men with scitzoprena instead of depression. Or of africa American children being labelled having conducted forer in school, and their white counterparts with the similar symptom. Profile

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.