Ian Mitroff
7 min readJun 29, 2021

Treating the Collective the Mental Health and Well-Being of Society

Treating the Collective the Mental Health and Well-Being of Society

Before one can treat the problems of a complex society, one needs to have the best, most honest assessment possible. But this means confronting the fact that no amount of research into the parts of a complex, messy system will reveal the behavior, let alone the properties, of the system as a whole. To think otherwise is tantamount to committing a massive Type Three Error — solving the wrong problem precisely!