Richard Bentall (Mental illness is a result of distress yet still we stigmatise it,26 February) has if a thoughtful analysis. However, arguing that taking an “extreme biological approach … makes it all too easy to believe that human beings fall into two subspecies, and the mentally well and the mentally ill” is unhelpful and introduces a straw man.
As Professor Simon Wessely (Letters,27 February) replied,“psychiatry brings together in equal measure the biological, or psychological and social”.
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Source: theguardian.com