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Is Capitalism Making Us Sick?
‘Mental health is produced socially: the presence or absence of mental health is above all a social indicator and therefore requires social, as well as individual solutions … A preoccupation with individual symptoms may lead to a “disembodied psychology” which separates what goes on inside people’s heads from social structure and context. The key t
... See morePaul Verhaeghe • What About Me?: The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society
out: Is “our society driving people to this point so often, because we have an epidemic [that’s being] caused by specific things that are dysfunctional in our society?”
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
As long as we live under patriarchal capitalism, my instinct is that a general failure to thrive within it will be the cause and substance of the majority of mental health diagnoses. The question we are asking is basically, “how dare you be born female/poor/brown/weak/needy/wild/sensitive/free?” and not the more crucial, effective and urgent, “how ... See more