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‘What I see in clinic is never a set of labels’: are we in danger of overdiagnosing mental illness? -podcast

Our current approach to mental health labelling and diagnosis has brought benefits. But as a practising doctor, I am concerned that it may be doing more harm than good By Gavin Francis. Read by Noof Ousellam. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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  ‘Pretty birds and silly moos’: the women behind the Sex Discrimination Act

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  From the archive: China’s troll king: how a tabloid editor became the voic…

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  I used to report from the West Bank. Twenty years after my last visit, I w…

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  Out of the ruins: will Aleppo ever be rebuilt?

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  From the archive: Why can’t we agree on what’s true any more?

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  A century in the Siberian wilderness: the Old Believers who time forgot

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  Inside voice: what can our thoughts reveal about the nature of consciousne…

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  From the archive: ‘Who remembers proper binmen?’ The nostalgia memes that …

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  What technology takes from us – and how to take it back

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  The crisis whisperer: how Adam Tooze makes sense of our bewildering age

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  From the archive: Do we need a new theory of evolution?

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  Walking into disaster: the narcotrafficking scandal that blew up the BVI

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  Trump’s assault on the Smithsonian: ‘The goal is to reframe the entire cul…

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  From the archive: the free speech panic: how the right concocted a crisis

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  ‘We hate it. It’s desecration’: the real cost of HS2