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/524/ You've Been Diagnosed with Subjective Problems ft. Amber Trotter

/524/ You've Been Diagnosed with Subjective Problems ft. Amber Trotter

Update: 2025-12-01
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On overmedicalisation and the crisis of authority.


Amber Trotter, practicing psychologist and an editor at Damage magazine, and George Hoare tell Alex about their co-written article in the print issue of Damage on "the pre-political".




  • What is driving the explosion in mental health diagnoses? Why are people seeking diagnosis?




  • How is it the product of the subjective and the purely scientific?




  • Does capitalism make us ill? Is blaming 'capitalism' abstractly part of the problem?




  • What is the crisis of authority? Whose authority?




  • Can we solve pre-political problems with politics? And political problems with pre-political approaches?




Damage, Issue 5: The Pre-Political


 

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/524/ You've Been Diagnosed with Subjective Problems ft. Amber Trotter

/524/ You've Been Diagnosed with Subjective Problems ft. Amber Trotter

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