There is a Buddhist psychologist who describes the mind as social, ethical & relational.

Aug 14, 2022

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criteria, disease is a …ism of the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Disease by asking whether the mind itself can be ‘ill.’ He argues the mind cannot, whilst the brain can. “According to pathological-scientific criteria, disease is a material phenomenon; like urine, it i…

Shades of Gray: Towards a New Way of Categorizing Psychiatric Illness

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Amitha Kalaichandran

There is a Buddhist psychologist who describes the mind as social, ethical & relational. Society, laws & people interact with the individual's brain. How can the brain's sickness be independent from its surroundings?

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