Tag: madness

Talking Therapy: 8 Thoughts on How We Talk About Mental Health

Mental Health Week on NovaraWire: Despite the historical inability of psychiatry to find biological evidence for mental illnesses, we still use its language when talking about mental health. Is it time we instead returned to a political approach to mental health and psychiatric care?
5 Terrains for the Struggle for Mental Health
While the social movements of the 1960s and 70s were characterized by strong anti-psychiatry currents, the politics of mental health remains somewhat neglected in contemporary movements despite mental health issues being on the rise since the 2008 global financial crisis. This article looks at 5 potential terrains of struggle.
You Don’t Have To Be Mad to Work Here, But It Helps
From Fordist drudgery to the personal chaos of precarity, work seems to both produce and feed off our madness. With depression, anxiety and suicide on the rise in the global north, it's time to look at the madness of work itself.