The Americanization of Mental Illness

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:31:45 +0000

This article form the New York Times argues that mental illness is dependent on the culture you live and that the U.S.A has been setting the standard for the world in what is a “legitimate mental illness”.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/magazine/10psyche-t.html?pagewanted=all

“We might think of the culture as possessing a ‘symptom repertoire’ — a range of physical symptoms available to the unconscious mind for the physical expression of psychological conflict,” Edward Shorter

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The Americanization of Mental Illness