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The Quest for Mental Health - A Tale of Science, Medicine, Scandal, Sorrow, and Mass Society (Hardcover)
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The Quest for Mental Health - A Tale of Science, Medicine, Scandal, Sorrow, and Mass Society (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Essential Histories
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This is the story of one of the most far-reaching human endeavors
in history: the quest for mental well-being. From its origins in
the eighteenth century to its wide scope in the early twenty-first,
this search for emotional health and welfare has cost billions. In
the name of mental health, millions around the world have been
tranquilized, institutionalized, psycho-analyzed, sterilized,
lobotomized, and even euthanized. Yet at the dawn of the new
millennium, reported rates of depression and anxiety are
unprecedentedly high. Drawing on years of field research, Ian
Dowbiggin argues that if the quest for emotional well-being has
reached a crisis point in the twenty-first century, it is because
mass society is enveloped by cultures of therapism and consumerism,
which increasingly advocate bureaucratic and managerial approaches
to health and welfare. Over time, stake-holders such as
governments, educators, drug companies, the media, the insurance
industry, the courts, the helping professions, and a public whose
taste for treatment seems insatiable have transformed the campaign
to achieve mental health into a movement that has come to mean all
things to virtually all people. As Dowbiggin shows, unless systemic
changes take place, the quest for mental health is likely to make
populations more miserable before they become happier.
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