4.4. Depression, a mental disorder/mental illness/mood disorder, a critique: 49 min 34 sec

What is “mental illness”?; three terms used interchangeably; the meaning of “mental”, “psychiatry”, “psyche”; are mind and brain the same thing? Is the brain really the control centre? what brain scans show; “mental illness”/“mental disorder” as constructs – “impossible to define”; the level of validity of the terms “mental disorder”, mental illness, “mood disorder”; what is a mood disorder? The cancelling of context; the medicalisation of human reactions. 

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