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Psychiatry and the Meaning of Pain

Does depression always require psychiatric care?

Mark Salter.

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Diagnoses of clinical depression are on the rise. Are we medicalising necessary emotions? Consultant Psychiatrist, filmmaker and writer Mark Salter makes the case for the value of sadness.

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James on 13/05/2013 2:16am

Fantastic talk. key message there is that people in our society seem to be relinquishing responsibility for our emotions and selves- whatever happened to the stiff upper lip maxim

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Allan Macdougall on 05/02/2013 3:14pm

Please please please could the camera operator be more aware of speaker content? Mark Salter obviously used some visuals on the TV screen out of shot!

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