Episode 18 – Idioms of Normality hosted by Dr Paul H. Mason

The social conditioning of normality

Professor Emeritus Allan Horwitz, author of “What’s Normal? Reconciling Biology and Culture”, joins Paul in this episode of Idioms of Normality. Allan discusses a sociological and biological approach to understanding normality. His wealth of experience researching mental health is brought into the discussion to enlighten how cultural and biological imperatives can sometimes operate in conflict with each other.