I already wrote something about the naive, and so far unsuccessful, materialistic approach toward psychiatric disorders here. Even though I’m not a psychiatrist, I believe, one can fairly frame some opinions based on sound reasoning on a subject where one does not have much expertise by resorting to the good old Hegelian dialectic. Start from a thesis of someone who has the expertise, look for the antithesis of someone else who has the same expertise, and only after pondering about the two opposite standpoints, conclude with a synthesis.
As a thesis, I propose an article by Camilla Nord, head of the Mental Health Neuroscience Lab at the University of Cambridge. The antithesis is a letter, of the opposite tone, by Richard Bentall, psychology Professor of Clinical Psychology at Liverpool University and Former Uppinghamian. Bentall’s letter is from 2016, but remains more than ever actual and worth reading. Going carefully through both could be a good weekend read.
Let’s first briefly sum…
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