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Mental Disorders in Animals from an Anthropological Point of View: A Research Reconnaissance

Summary/Abstract: It is still widely believed that only people can be mentally ill, and that this trait distinguishes us from other species. The interest of 21st-century scholars representing the humanities in the issue of animal mental disorders can be studied from the perspective of posthumanism and the animal turn, in that it means crossing another line between the “human” and the “non-human.” In her article, Magdalena Kozhevnikova highlights the most common mental disorders diagnosed in pets and captive animals, provides examples of unethical animal experiments in psychology, and briefly discusses the phenomenon of animal addiction and suicide. Her findings allow her to emphasize that, while analogies to mental disorders in humans can and should be used in the study of mental disorders in non-human animals, their primary goal of animal research ought to be to study the psyche of non-human animals.

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