Mental Disorder in a Healthy Brain: The Goose, the Fox and Addiction

Can there be mental disorder without brain disease?

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By Neuroskeptic
Jun 12, 2020 11:00 PMJun 15, 2020 4:26 PM
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A new paper offers a deeply thought-provoking perspective on the nature of addiction and how mental disorders can exist without brain diseases.

The article, from Jerome Wakefield, contains several lines of argument. One of them is an analogy, which I liked so much that I’m going to turn it into a story to start this post:

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