#2: Richard Bentall on Mental Health Disorder Classification
Richard is a professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Sheffield. Richard earned his bachelors and P.H.D. from Bangor University. He has edited and written several books, most notably Madness Explained, which was the winner of the British Psychological Society Book Award in 2004. His research today focuses on Psychiatric classification. As well as elements of Psychosis in conditions of ‘schizophrenia’ and ‘bipolar disorder’, including a focus on the mechanisms involved in hallucinations and delusions. He also has a keen interest in social determinants of mental illness as well as psychiatric treatment. In this episode, Richard and I's discussion, focuses on mental health disorder classifications, namely how diagnosis have progressed and what changes are needed in our current classification system.
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