Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis by James Davies

Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis

James Davies with Mark Elstob (Narrator)

8 hours, 17 minutes first pub 2021 (editions) user-added

nonfiction health psychology science challenging informative medium-paced
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This book is ideal for readers curious about the intersection of societal structures and personal well-being, who seek to critically examine how economic and political systems shape our understanding of mental health.

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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...

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