Episode 367: Understanding the symptom pool (how the world goes mad)

The symptom pool is probably the single most important concept
with respect to understanding mental illness. In short, the
symptom pool is a culturally-bound collection of behavioral
signals that can be used to communicate various degrees of
distress. These signals are unconsciously added to the pool at
the population level, and they are unconsciously manifested from
the pool at the individual level. In this episode, I cite an
example of how this might look from Ethan Watters's "Crazy like
us".


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