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Beatrice Adler-Bolton (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the SPK?

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The Role of Medicalization in Social Reproduction

The psychiatrist the doctor there is sick perchton like any of us. There are sort of reasons to receive treatment not for being able to go back to work just for you know wanting treatment and feeling that there's a therapeutic benefit in it. These systems fundamentally they'reproductive of suffering and they're productive of these kinds of invisible social relationships that always exist outside of traditional wage work right? And we can't turn people away from these kinds of critiques because capitalism doesn't wholesale make mental illness but certainly can take certain symptoms of mental illness and make them unacceptable or mark them as incurable, he says.

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