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<p>Based on the 14th Sir Geoffrey Vickers Lecture for the Mental Health Foundation, Professor Michael Shepherd talks about and attempts to define mental disorders currently affecting the population. He bases his lecture around three questions: what types of mental disorder do we encounter? How much illness is subsumed by these categories and where and how are the patients suffering from such disorders to be identified? He calls on much evidence from different studies attempting classification processes and points out the huge variance between them. Throughout, Shepherd questions whether or not it is possible for there to be a universally agreed categorisation system for mental health. 8 segments.</p>

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