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The Poetics and Politics of Our Mental Health Metaphors: An Interview with Laurence Kirmayer

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He has helped pioneer integrative approaches that unite phenomenology and neuroscience, including a biopsychosocial model grounded in enactive and embodied cognition , as well as a person-centered, ecosocial framework for understanding suffering beyond reductive biological paradigms. I have no mental health problems.

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Dostoevsky: A Psychologist We Can All Learn From

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The biopsychosocial model of psychology as it is taught and practiced today, is stilled heavily influenced by the scope determined by Wundt. Psychology has become a giant, its terms and constructs now part of the cultural lexicon, and yet it is one with clay feet.