Lisette’s Reviews > Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health > Status Update

"The danger in these appeals to nature and normality is that they further reify deviance and disorder as something that is objective, and inherently negative. (...) In arguing that we are natural and normal, we often uncritically suggest that 'naturalness' and 'normality' are things to strive towards, while simultaneously distancing ourselves from those other unnatural and abnormal people 'over there'."