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BLOG POST Where Distress Really Lives
Since psychologically distressed states and criminality are so entwined in the literature, then when behaviour is criminalised, we arrive at a collision. The law wants to know what was in your head. The ecosystemic account says; look at what your head was in. The post Ecosystemic Distress and the Limits of Criminal…
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For more than a century, the dominant Western approach to mental health has rested on a single assumption; that distress lives inside the person. If someone is struggling, something must be wrong…