Statistical-legal and cultural- is normal healthy

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The book spends a great deal of time presenting differing ways in which psychology defines abnormal. Discuss the view that matches your opinion most closely (statistical, legal, cultural etc) by answering the questions that follow:
1 Why did you choose this view?
2 What are the pros and cons to your view?
3 Is normal healthy? For example, in this country it has become normal to be overweight, which we can all agree is unhealthy.
4 Do you believe it makes sense to use the term abnormal when dealing with mental health issues? Why or why not?
5 Does the use of this term indicate bias?

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