Paradox: declining expert authority and rise of self‑diagnosis

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