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Mental illness too complex to be compartmentalized

Posted on October 13, 2011

Norman Segalowitz, a professor in the Department of Psychology, comments on recent critiques of the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC). In a letter to the editor published in the National Post, Segalowitz explains that mental illness cannot be oversimplified and invites readers to reject the notion that mental illness can be framed “in terms of a sharp ideological divide between social science and neuroscience.”