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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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I Was the Poster Girl for OCD. Then I Began to Question Everything I’d Been Told About Mental Illness
Rose Cartwrighttheguardian.com
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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
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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
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performatism is being embedded within us
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?
Devon Frye • Is Capitalism Making Us Sick?
Keely Adler added
‘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
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
Agalia Tan added
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions
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