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Old Jan 29, 2009, 06:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Rhapsody View Post
IMO - it is when the mind, thoughts and actions of a person do not perform within the realm of what is considered normal for a human being.

Isn't regarding people as mentally ill on that basis a means of pathologising divergent or eccentic thinkers?
It brings up the spectre of correcting behaviours as a means of social control.
I believe Soviet psychiatry went down this road.