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This New Book Asks Whether Capitalism Really Is Driving Us All Crazy
"Would diagnosis matter so much in a world where all people and patients had more power – one where we did not have to constantly prove ourselves to employers, to medical professionals and to the benefits system to get our fundamental needs met? A system of social organisation in which healthcare and other healing processes centred informed consent
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Rose Cartwrighttheguardian.com
Locked in the terrifying prison of one’s neuroses, where the increasingly narrowing paths to liberation always seem to invoke the language of individual healing, flourishing or self-improvement (therapy is wonderful, but it’s strange that a private, commodified exchange seems to have become synonymous with practising a public ethics of care), the m
... See moreRebecca Liu • The Making of a Millennial Woman
Mental ailments and the way we diagnose and treat them unveil something central about the pursuits of modernity itself.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions
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I’m curious about the way it’s impacting our inner monologues. The constant self-analysis, the picking-apart, the internal work . In collusion with capitalism and social media and the digital panopticon, seeing ourselves through a therapized lens means regarding the self as the ultimate project. It’s easy to forget there are other ways to live.
#180: Against Self-Analysis
what if our distress is a perfectly normal response to a society that’s lost its way? What if unfettered capitalism is making us sick?