[D66] How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis

[René Oudeweg]

    Sedated


      How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis

James Davies <https://atlantic-books.co.uk/contributor/james-davies>

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RRP: £10.99

3 March 2022

Published by Atlantic Books

ISBN: 9781786499875

*A provocative and shocking look at how western society is 
misunderstanding and mistreating mental illness. **Perfect for fans of 
/Empire of Pain /and /Dope Sick./*
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In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a 
psychiatric drug in any one year. This is an increase of over 500% since 
1980 and the numbers continue to grow. Yet, despite this prescription 
epidemic, levels of mental illness of all types have actually increased 
in number and severity.
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Using a wealth of studies, interviews with experts, and detailed 
analysis, Dr James Davies argues that this is because we have 
fundamentally mischaracterised the problem. Rather than viewing most 
mental distress as an understandable reaction to wider societal 
problems, we have embraced a medical model which situates the problem 
solely within the sufferer and their brain.

Urgent and persuasive, /Sedated /systematically examines why this 
individualistic view of mental illness has been promoted by successive 
governments and big business – and why it is so misplaced and dangerous.
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