Will Baum, LCSW » existential therapy http://www.willbaum.com Psychotherapy | Los Angeles Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:04:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Manufacturing Depression http://www.willbaum.com/2010/03/05/manufacturing-depression/ http://www.willbaum.com/2010/03/05/manufacturing-depression/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:31:39 +0000 wb http://www.willbaum.com/?p=542 A long review/think piece in the New Yorker about therapy and psychiatry, including the view from Gary Greenberg’s book, Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease:

Greenberg basically regards the pathologizing of melancholy and despair, and the invention of pills designed to relieve people of those feelings, as a vast capitalist conspiracy to paste a big smiley face over a world that we have good reason to feel sick about. The aim of the conspiracy is to convince us that it’s all in our heads, or, specifically, in our brains—that our unhappiness is a chemical problem, not an existential one…

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