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How do we define mental illness?

As a result of Freud's psychoanalytic theory, the medical community began to accept mental disorders as illnesses that could be treated.  Later developments began to link mental disorders with body chemistry, leading to the field of psychiatry.  The current rate at which doctors are writing drug prescriptions, however, calls one to question the definition of mental illness.  What are the symptoms that are recognized by the scientific community as indications of mental illness?  Just as importantly, how does the general population define mental illness?  How might this definition vary from one society to another?  In exploring these questions, we will find that the definition of mental illness branches beyond psychology/psychiatry and depends on the type of society (industrial/developing), social class, marketing, intelligence, and personality.
          
          Moderated by Mattew  Bruns
Wed. Aug 6th 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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courtyard between Dearborn Observatory and Garret Evangelical Seminary facing Walter Annenberg Hall


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