> In promoting a biogenetic causal theory, anti-stigma campaigners – as well as psychiatrists, the popular media, and others – hoped to convince people that mental illnesses are ‘just like’ other chronic physical ailments, such as ‘heart disease or diabetes’, to quote the APA, and could be medically addressed.
We're very caught up in naturalistic thinking. Speaking of a soul or the mind is frivolous at best, and superstitious at worst. But look where this way of thinking has brought us.
The brain and the heart are two different organs. But while we can use science to gain an understanding of the brain, the mind is understood by philosophy and religion.
Case in point, I once asked a friend of mine if he could prove that he loved his wife. He said if he were able to freeze time, and gain knowledge of every synapse, every chemical reaction, every electrical potential -- he could definitively prove that he loved his wife, and she loved him.
"When you get home," I responded, "remember to duck when you tell your wife you want to go have her brain scanned to prove she loves you."
We're very caught up in naturalistic thinking. Speaking of a soul or the mind is frivolous at best, and superstitious at worst. But look where this way of thinking has brought us.
The brain and the heart are two different organs. But while we can use science to gain an understanding of the brain, the mind is understood by philosophy and religion.
Case in point, I once asked a friend of mine if he could prove that he loved his wife. He said if he were able to freeze time, and gain knowledge of every synapse, every chemical reaction, every electrical potential -- he could definitively prove that he loved his wife, and she loved him.
"When you get home," I responded, "remember to duck when you tell your wife you want to go have her brain scanned to prove she loves you."