Once you abandon the idea of a personal baseline, it becomes possible to think of emotional suffering as relapse—instead of something to be expected from an individual’s way of being in the world.

Dorian Deshauer

Dr. Dorian Deshauer is the lead editor of the Medicine and Society section in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ). He teaches residents in family medicine and psychiatry and his academic teaching also includes undergraduate courses in the history of science and seminars in the history of psychiatry. Deshauer is interested in the way technology drives changes in the way mental illness is perceived. His clinical work tends to center around people who have been designated by the terms ‘bipolar disorder’ and ‘schizophrenia’.

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