Defining mental illness

Losing Our Minds: What Mental Illness Really Is – and What It Isn’t

Author: Editorial 8th April 2021 0 Comments

This book is from psychologist Lucy Foulkes. The publishers say: “Public awareness of mental illness has been transformed in recent years, but our understanding of what it actually is has yet to catch up. Too often, psychiatric disorders are confused with…
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a coherent system

adolescence, books, children and adolescents, COVID-19, Defining mental illness, diagnostic labelling, Lucy Foulkes, normality, stress

Author: Editorial 7th April 2021 0 Comments

This 42 minute podcast is from BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week series, hosted by Andrew Marr. The producers say: “Reports of a mental health epidemic among young people both leading up to and during the pandemic are now widespread. Sally…
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a coherent system

Andrew Marr, audio, BBC, children and adolescents, Defining mental illness, Lucy Foulkes, psychosomatic illness, Radio Four, Sally Holland, Suzanne O’Sullivan