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Fredrik deBoer critiques mental health culture in new book

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Fredrik deBoer's new book, "All in Your Head: Illness as Identity, Trauma as Fashion, and the Desire to be Disordered," critiques the modern mental health landscape. DeBoer argues that the discourse around disability and diagnosis has been co-opted by more privileged individuals, overshadowing those with severe mental illnesses. He draws on his own experiences with bipolar disorder and a psychotic episode to critique the anti-psychiatry movement and the casual adoption of identity labels. AI

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  1. Fortune TIER_1 English(EN) · Nick Lichtenberg ·

    ‘I’m more woke than 90% of the population’: Freddie deBoer knows his new book about psychiatry and disability will piss you off—and welcomes it

    "All in Your Head" argues illness labels have become identities and it should be easier to commit the ill. It began as "the gentrification of disability."

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