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Letter: A sick environment

Published 18 March 2008

From Meghann Mears

David Nettle says that “for almost any personality profile, there is an optimum environment” (9 February, p 36). This has major implications for how we interpret and act on recent increases of so-called psychological “disorders”. Will we continue to medicate, or will we prove able to reconstruct a social and living environment that does not turn our natural personalities into disorders?

Sheffield, UK

Issue no. 2648 published 22 March 2008

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