Draft article for 'Mind Matters' feature - reproduced with permission of The Irish News.

Mental health? Mental illness? Mental disorders? On the radio in the 1940’s, a celebrated english philosopher, Cem Joad, used to preface his response to any question with this opener: “it all depends on what you mean” (*). Perhaps we would do well to follow Joad’s practice whenever any of these ‘mental’ terms are used...
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