Judging from the responses of several readers, certainly not all, to my previous post of March 7, “Poverty & Mental Illness: You Can’t Have One Without the Other,” poverty is not an issue customarily twinned with serious mental illness. Which is not surprising since poverty as a social problem requiring amelioration appears to have dropped off the national agenda. More importantly – and the point of the post – poverty is not usually viewed as a cause of mental illness. Again not surprising, given the predominance of the neurobiological model. This post is a follow-up to that March 7 post. Unlike the latter, which was chock full of...

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