The Nuance

Is It Time to Reconsider the ‘Disease Model’ of Mental Health?

A prominent U.K. psychologist believes we should change the way we talk about depression, anxiety, and other forms of psychological distress

Markham Heid
Elemental
Published in
5 min readJul 21, 2021
Photo: Annie Spratt/Unsplash

In 2013, the British Psychological Society published a position statement that…

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Markham Heid
Elemental

I’m a long-time contributor at TIME and other media orgs. I write mostly about health. I grew up in Michigan, but these days I live in southwest Germany.