Empowering Minds

What is normal? | Episode 4


Listen Later

What is normal in the mental health experience? MHE Policy Manager Laura Marchetti is joined by four experts to unpack the understanding of normality and mental health. 

Dr Zsófia Demjén, Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics in London explores how language influences the way we frame and understand mental (ill) health. Professor Peter Kinderman from the University of Liverpool (UK) sheds light on how mental health and normality are approached in medical practice. Kees Dijkman, mental health ambassador from the Netherlands, turns attention to the media landscape and how it translates into the way mental health and mental health issues are portrayed. Dominique de Marné, social entrepreneur and mental health advocate from Germany, talks about her own personal experience and the misconceptions around the notion of normality. 

Music by PurplePlanet.com.

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Empowering MindsBy Mental Health Europe


More shows like Empowering Minds

View all
Today in Focus by The Guardian

Today in Focus

1,015 Listeners