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This New Book Asks Whether Capitalism Really Is Driving Us All Crazy
The brain-disease model overlooks four fundamental truths: (1) our capacity to destroy one another is matched by our capacity to heal one another. Restoring relationships and community is central to restoring well-being; (2) language gives us the power to change ourselves and others by communicating our experiences, helping us to define what we kno
... See moreBessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
It’s not possible to understand people’s unhappiness, exhaustion, and mental illness without analysing social developments and the reality they face in their everyday lives. There have always been autistic individuals, but the diagnosis only arises in the encounter with the world around them. The more streamlined society becomes, the more individua
... See moreClara Törnvall • The Autists: women on the spectrum
We live in an extremely individualistic culture, where we are constantly pushed to see our problems as individual failings, and to seek out individual solutions.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
I Was the Poster Girl for OCD. Then I Began to Question Everything I’d Been Told About Mental Illness
Rose Cartwrighttheguardian.com
Meanwhile, the life story we should be seeking out, identifying with and proudly proclaiming, has been obscured. Our pathologies are not badges of honour but helpful alarm bells: reminders from the psyche that we have reached the edge of the path and need to re-orient to move forward into whatever greatness might be on offer for us. We can pay atte
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