Sedated

How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis

James Davies

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English

Atlantic Books
03 March 2022

Social welfare & social services; Social, group or collective psychology; Political control & freedoms; Medicine; Mental health services; Popular psychology

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.

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.

By: James Davies
Imprint: Atlantic Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 359g
ISBN: 9781786499875
ISBN 10: 1786499878
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 03 March 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1: An Economic Prelude 2: The New Culture of Proliferating Debt and Drugs 3: The New Dissatisfactions of Modern Work 4: The New Back-to-Work Psychological Therapies 5: The New Causes of Unemployment 6: Education and the Rise of New Managerialism 7: Deregulating the So-Called Chemical Cure 8: Materialism No More 9: Dehumanising Productivity 10: You Only Have Yourself to Blame 11: The Social Determinants of Distress 12: Conclusion

James Davies is Associate Professor of mental health and anthropology at the University of Roehampton. He is the author of the bestselling book Cracked: Why psychiatry is doing more harm than good.

Reviews for Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis

'Sedated is a polemic of great clarity that will make you feel at once angry and reassured.' - New Statesman '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