Political, cultural, and financial forces have made many mental health professionals so unaware about the reality of trauma and adversity that they often harm instead of help.
Despite increased spending on mental health treatment, mental illness disability and suicide rates have skyrocketed.
Comment manipuler l’opinion en démocratie ? Si cette question peut en faire sourire certains ou être considérée par d’autres comme probablement « complotiste » , c’est pourtant elle qui a motivé le publicitaire américain Edward Bernays durant toute sa vie. Illustre inconnu pour le grand public, il a pourtant eu une influence non négligeable sur notre société. La portée de […]
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“8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance” was originally published in 2011, then republished on several Internet sites, and has become one of my most viewed articles. The eight reasons include: student-loan debt; various pacifying effects of standard schooling; the psychopathologizing and medicating of noncompliance; surveillance; television; and fundamentalist religion and fundamentalist consumerism.
« Réussir sa vie », « Happy life », « En quête du bonheur », « Révolution positive », autant d’expressions toutes faites que l’on retrouve sur la toile sous forme de blogs aux allures de boutiques spirituelles et de vérité universelle. Voilà comment se définit aujourd’hui le concept modernisé du développement personnel dont les outils résident en la croyance […]
Why did the Guardian take down an online obituary to the sociologist Brian Taylor, without telling readers?
In November 2016, the Guardian published a celebratory obituary, online, of the Sussex University sociologist Brian Taylor, who had died aged 66. In May 2017 the newspaper took it down, but did not explain the decision to readers. They were left in the dark.
George Carlin, in his book Brain Droppings, told us that his motto had come to be: “Fuck Hope.” In his autobiography Last Words, Carlin recalled, “The election of Ronald Reagan might’ve been the beginning of my giving up on my species. Because it was absurd.”
