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Episode 539
Published 7 months, 1 week ago
Description
On overmedicalisation and the crisis of authority.
Amber Trotter, practicing psychologist and an editor at Damage magazine, and George Hoare tell Alex about their co-written article in the print issue of Damage on "the pre-political".
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What is driving the explosion in mental health diagnoses? Why are people seeking diagnosis?
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How is it the product of the subjective and the purely scientific?
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Does capitalism make us ill? Is blaming 'capitalism' abstractly part of the problem?
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What is the crisis of authority? Whose authority?
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Can we solve pre-political problems with politics? And political problems with pre-political approaches?
Damage, Issue 5: The Pre-Political