Socialism 2016

The talk will explore how capitalism, the crucible of much mental illness, benefits from medical and pharmaceutical treatments and ignores the social causes of suffering. The result is a history of under- and mis-treatment and misunderstanding of mental illness in society.

Suggested Readings:
Mad in America: Bad Medicine, Bad Science, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill by Robert Whitaker
The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease by Jonathan Metzl
Talks on Mental Illness on We Are Many.org
“Morbid Symptoms: Health Under Capitalism”