ABSTRACT
Chapter 6, The human mind in concept and experience, provides a number of examples, historical and otherwise, of how language and concepts concerning the human mind and the modern mental health care, including conceptual metaphors, have come into being and how they govern our understanding of mental health care, science, human beings, and the political order. Along with subjective experiences, concepts structure our interpretation of what we see and read, how we get around in the world, and how we relate to other people. By investigating the experiences, words, and concepts belonging to the conceptual history of mental health care, politics, and education, one can see that there is a multiplicity of factors and meanings existing behind the concepts representing their history. Psychological concepts and labels carry a great deal of implicit theoretical baggage because they come with rich connotations acquired through everyday usage.
