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27 janvier 2022
- handle: 10670/1.4vvp6l
- isbn: 9781800642065
- eisbn: 9791036529498
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Pascal Boyer, « 6. Detecting mental disorder », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.4vvp6l
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Introductory Note Who do we see as mad, and why? How do people decide that some person (possibly themselves) suffers from a mental disorder? History and anthropology tell us that in all human societies, people readily identify some forms of behavior as evidence for some dysfunction. In modern societies, we delegate final decisions about such matters to medical specialists. But that is of course a recent phenomenon (Porter, 2004). And, even in places with psychiatric experts, an individual mus...