Sedated
How Modern Capitalism Created Our Mental Health Crisis
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Sedated
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Narrated by:
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Mark Elstob
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James Davies
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A provocative and shocking look at how western society is misunderstanding and mistreating mental illness.
In Britain alone, more than 20 per cent of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. This is an increase of over 500 per cent 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.
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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Critic reviews
"A wonderful, moving and truly life-changing book. Sedated is an urgent intervention for post-pandemic society, written with expertise and clarity. Warning: it will cause irritation to powerful interests who fear us all becoming better informed about the root causes of so much human suffering." (Baroness Shami Chakrabarti, former Director of Liberty)
"James Davies is one of the most important voices on mental health in the world. This is a beautiful and deeply sane book. Everyone who's suffering - and wants to know how to make it stop - should read it right away." (Johann Hari, author of Lost Connections)
"In this game-changing polemic, James Davies leaves us in no doubt: to tackle the mental health crisis we need major social and economic reform." (Nathan Filer, author of This Book will Change Your Mind about Mental Health)
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James Davies is relentless in his (largely) evidence based take-down of how modern medicine and healthcare practices frame mental health challenges and how these, in turn, have been driven by pressures from business and industry to want cookie-cutter human resources to work in, and buy from, their industries.
The legendary Mark Elstob would make the most tedious subject matter appealing, but when coupled with such a compelling, yet jaw-dropping, narrative, this volume is as compelling as the best works of fiction.
If you've ever wondered why the western worlds mental health seems to have so rapidly declined and how (and why) 'fixing' this is so focussed on the symptoms rather than the causes buy this audiobook right away, life, as you see it, will never be the same again.
Mind-altering, invest 8 hours now - change forever
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