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Is there such a thing as 'normal' behaviour? Human societies are all about norms, correct ways to behave, standard ways to look, socially acceptable attitudes to all things. To be judged abnormal is to be rejected, to be regarded as faulty, in need of repair. Entire medical industries have grown up in a bid to put right those unfortunate members of society that are not normal - the deviants. There is not, nor ever was, such a thing as 'normality'. This invented idea is all about conformity, about averages, about absolute measures of reality - a concept that seen from the viewpoint of complexity thought is absurd. It seems that normality can only be defined in relation to abnormality. The most normal sometimes display abnormal behaviour and the most abnormal patients display recognisably normal behaviours. Normal behaviour in one situation might not be regarded as normal in another. Psychologists have tried...

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