ABSTRACT
Mental disorders are not brain disorders. Or so I have argued. This is true, I have claimed, even though or if mental disorders are brain based. The disorderliness of a mental disorder is connected with its being undesirable and its undesirability is constituted, in part, by the fact that a disorder makes a person worse off and does so involuntarily. Diseases do that too, of course. They make persons unwillingly worse off. But mental disorders are perhaps not best understood as forms of disease. I have argued for those claims as well.
