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One Person’s Journey from Celebrity Medical Model Advocate to Skeptic: An Interview with Rose Cartwright

Mad in America

Pure portrayed Rose’s autobiographical account of finding that she had OCD, a “mental illness”, and the breakthrough that this medical framework provided her. She talks about understanding the place of her own childhood trauma and also the limitations of simplistic trauma narratives. This was short-lived. Tell us more.