#1219 Sami Timimi: A New Approach to Understanding Mental Health, Distress and Neurodiversity
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Sammy Temimi. He's a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist. He's also an experienced psychotherapist, and today we're going to talk about his latest book, Searching for Normal, a new approach to understanding mental health.
So, Dr. Temimi, welcome to the show. It's a huge pleasure to everyone. Thank you so much for inviting me. I look forward to the conversation.
Yeah, likewise. So tell us first, what would you say is the main argument of your book before we get into specifics here? I am arguing that the way we imagine mental health to be. is a set of mythologies that have spread around that mental distress and behavioural difference is due to something internal to our brains and bodies. And that the way we understand and the framework we make to understanding what we mean by mental health has very powerful effects on
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