Stress, trauma, depression or 'on the spectrum' - we are experts at categorising our moods and personalities. But to what end? Psychiatrist Mark Salter lays bare a disastrous flaw in the way the human brain has evolved to manage the spiraling complexity of our world.
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Mark Salter is a consultant in adult general psychiatry. His special interests include risk, untowardness and media portrayals of mental distress. "It is not much to ask for mental health to be given the same degree of consideration as physical health." Mark Salter
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