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The Forum: Time to Rethink What is 'Normal'?

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Time to rethink what is 'normal'?

19/07/2014 GMT

Time to Rethink What is 'Normal'?

BBC World Service - The Forum, Time to Rethink What is 'Normal'?

Where is the dividing line between what is normal and what is a mental disorder?

How do we decide what is normal, when it comes to how we feel and how we behave? With Uta Frith, Lennard Davis and Jerry Pinto.

Where is the dividing line between ‘being a bit different’ and having a mental illness that needs treatment and professional help? Bridget Kendall is joined by novelist Jerry Pinto, who has turned personal experiences of growing up with a bipolar relative into an award-winning book, Professor of Disability and Human Development Lennard Davis, and autism research pioneer Professor Uta Frith. 

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