Davies, James

Sedated : how modern capitalism created our mental health crisis / James Davies. - 389 pages : illustrations (black and white)

I. The new opium -- An economic prelude -- The new culture of proliferating debt and drugs -- The new dissatisfactions of modern work -- The new back-to-work psychological therapies -- The new causes of unemployment -- Education and the rise of new managerialism -- II. How we got here -- Deregulating the so-called chemical cure -- Materialism no more -- Dehumanising productivity -- You only have yourself to blame -- The social determinants of distress.

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Mental illness--Great Britain.
Psychotropic drugs--Great Britain.
Capitalism--Health aspects--Great Britain.

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