This chapter delves into the significance of sharing impactful literature, specifically a book exploring the bureaucratic methods of the Nazi regime and their parallels to today's corporate landscape. The speakers highlight the author's skillful integration of activism with personal experiences to confront challenging historical realities and encourage listener engagement with the podcast.
How has the psychology industry perpetuated the problem?
Steffi Bednarek is a climate psychotherapist working both with clients on their anxiety and depression related to climate grief, and the overarching systems within the psychology profession which stigmatises mental health by failing to grasp that poor mental health can be a rational reaction to a broken world.
Steffi joins me to discuss how the dysfunction of our neoliberal economic system permeates our experience of being in the world, questioning whether health is an attainable goal in a sick society. She suggests the mental health crisis is yet another opportunity to radically transform our systems to promote a health that includes people and planet. We discuss the construct of the self, the metacrisis as a birth process, the role of the body in understanding information, and how to build psychological resilience.
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