Remove Personality disorders Remove Pharmaceuticals Remove Positive psychology
article thumbnail

Psychology, Personhood, and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Jeff Sugarman on Theoretical and Critical Psychology

Mad in America

In one of your articles on neoliberalism and psychological ethics, you discuss the striking increase in social anxiety diagnoses over the past 30 years. Both of these forces seem to have obvious implications for how psychological discourseand, in particular, mental healthgets shaped. Take multiple personality disorder , for example.