Among the courses most in demand among aspirant undergraduates this year, psychology leads the march to become the most popular degree course in Britain. Employment prospects in the fields of therapy and counselling are expanding rapidly alongside an ever-increasing public interest in mental health, psychiatric diagnosis and the problems of those believed to be neurodivergent.
Neurodivergence has become a bandwagon, so overladen as to devalue cruelly the plight of the much smaller numbers of adults and children whose sometimes grave mental difficulties struggle for definition amid the careless use of words and phrases such as autistic, clinically depressed, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and bipolar. You now hear people talking about these things in pubs and coffee shops.
The bible of this branch of medicine,
