Mental Health and Illness: Past Debates and Future Directions

The critique of psychiatry as we enter the third decade of the 21st century

“…For example, there are continuing debates on the boundaries of illness and on the definition of mental disorder (e.g. 8,9 ); there are attempts to resolve the classificatory complexity of mental health conditions and to critique the validity of existing classifications (e.g. [10][11][12] ); questions continue to be raised about the nature of mental disorders (e.g.…”