Is mental illness a myth?

USA Today (Magazine) | July 1, 1993| | Copyright

Psychiatrists, physicians, and lawyers are among those arguing over whether deviant, dangerous, or self-destructive behavior has a biological basis.

There has been a running debate over the validity of "mental illness" and its status in the marketplace of ideas. This is to some extent the culmination of many years of criticism of the view that mental illnesses are real illnesses - termed the "medical model" - and more than a decade of efforts in biological psychiatry aimed at demonstrating that they do indeed have a biological basis. The best evidence is that most ...

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