Re Greenfeld's thesis, three major disorders reduces to two, i have different ideas on this.
The mental scientific community, as I understand it, considers mental disorders substantially more various, and more complex, than just three major categories.
Greenfeld is a sociologist, not a psychologist, or a physician, or a brain science specialist.
Just to give one example, there are varieties of autism.
There are varieties of depression, with or without manic phases.
There is schizophrenia of various kinds in my judgment. Hallucinations, of whatever kind, are different fundamentally from various either manic or depressive mental states, although they may be related nevertheless.
There are other types of mental illness not included in the tripartite categorization.
Mental illness from brain injuries or diseases form in my view various different kinds of mental disorders from the three.
I have a hard time thinking of the phenomenon of nationalism as causing mental illness.
I will give a reference or two for ways to think about nationalism and other related terms, but a connection to mental disorders is not associated with the source of these references. Clark, Our Shadowed Present, "Why Was There No Nationalism In England?"; Anthony D. Smith, The Nation In History, The Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures, p. 36.
If I asked my former girlfriend, a professor of psychology (not sociology) at BU, whether to give much credence to Greenfeld's psychological account, she would probably not be very positive, but would nevertheless appear sympathetic to the work of a colleague.
Mental illness from brain injuries or diseases form in my view various different kinds of mental disorders from the three.
I have a hard time thinking of the phenomenon of nationalism as causing mental illness.
I will give a reference or two for ways to think about nationalism and other related terms, but a connection to mental disorders is not associated with the source of these references. Clark, Our Shadowed Present, "Why Was There No Nationalism In England?"; Anthony D. Smith, The Nation In History, The Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures, p. 36.
If I asked my former girlfriend, a professor of psychology (not sociology) at BU, whether to give much credence to Greenfeld's psychological account, she would probably not be very positive, but would nevertheless appear sympathetic to the work of a colleague.
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