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EP 416: Anxiety (and Mental Health) in the Achievement Society with Morra Aarons-Mele

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The Crisis of Gratification

In the 21st century, we deal much less with repression and negation than a surplus of possibilities. Han says the can does not revoke the should. Can simply becomes a better, more efficient way to discipline our behavior. In different ways, mental health conditions might be seen as the product of the inability to say no.

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