La invención de trastornos mentales | Marino Perez Alvarez | TEDxTorrelodones

Mental disorders are increasingly appearing in both adults and children. Are we really getting worse? Is our welfare society actually a society of malaise? What is causing us to have disorders that people didn't have before? Does the increase in disorders benefit anyone? Everything seems to indicate that mental disorders are being invented, but once invented, they become real. How is this possible? All these questions and others will be raised and answered. Marino Pérez Álvarez is Professor of Personality Psychology at the University of Oviedo. He is the author of numerous articles in scientific journals, as well as books, among the most recent being The Myth of the Creative Brain (2011), The Roots of Modern Psychopathology (2012), Third-Generation Therapies as Contextual Therapies (2014), and Returning to Normalcy: The Invention of ADHD and Childhood Bipolar Disorder (in collaboration, 2014). He received the 2014 Psychologist of the Year Award from the Psicofundación. Her current research focuses on contextual approaches to psychopathology and critiques of brain-centrism and the pathologization of life. Her approach involves the intersection of psychology, philosophy, history, and literature. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx