Mad in America
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
The mental health industry, including therapists, pharmaceutical companies, and even heads of departments and trauma experts, have a vested interest in diagnosing as many individuals as possible. Jonathan Haidt has described the current generation as fragile due to being overprotected and less resilient.
Mad in America
JANUARY 24, 2024
This connection between mental health and the use of battlefield and warfare metaphors has meaningful implications for how people perceive and cope with mental health conditions, influencing how care goals are set and treatment plans are designed.
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Mad in America
OCTOBER 25, 2023
But I think what we’re doing there is intervening and derailing the rest of their life because we’re not allowing them to learn and build resilience and feel what it feels like to be uncomfortable and understand that that’s going to ebb and flow and how do we get out of that. Everything is so reactive.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
A recent example is the work of the medical anthropologist , James Davies, who details how medicalization, the ever-expanding use of pharmaceuticals, and a consumerist philosophy based in modern capitalism has depoliticized our mental distress while driving higher levels of suffering. Some examples illustrate this.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
Thats not a leap people often makefrom philosophical psychology to critiques of the pharmaceutical industry and medicalization. She was deeply involved in critical psychiatry and critiques of the pharmaceutical industry. In that context, compartmentalization is a useful coping mechanism. But this detachment isnt always helpful.
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