Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health
Health & Fitness:Mental Health
Dana Becker is professor emeritus of social work and social research at Bryn Mawr College and has practiced as a psychotherapist for over three decades. With a doctorate in psychology and a master’s degree in social work, she has been an equal-opportunity critic of both fields in her work on the effects of therapeutic culture on women in the US.
These themes are explored in her books, Through the Looking Glass: Women and Borderline Personality Disorder (Westview Press, 1997) and The Myth of Empowerment: Women and the Therapeutic Culture in America (NYU Press, 2005). Her most recent book, One Nation under Stress: The Trouble with Stress as an Idea (Oxford University Press, 2014), tackles the effects of the therapeutic culture through an examination of the ideological work currently performed by the stress concept. Her work has received awards from the Society for the Psychology of Women.
Becker is known for her work on the use of borderline personality disorder to medicalize women’s problems. She has also advanced some significant criticisms of the way we talk about and deal with stress in our society and noted how feminist psychotherapy had been weakened in its revolutionary potential.
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Context and Care vs Isolate and Control - An Interview with Arthur Kleinman
Undisclosed Financial Conflicts of Interest in the DSM-5: An interview with Lisa Cosgrove and Brian Piper
Deprescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Reduce Harms and Empower Patients - Swapnil Gupta
Is Madness an Evolved Signal? – Justin Garson on Strategy Versus Dysfunction
'It Was a Joint Effort'- Deborah Kasdan on Bringing Her Late Sister's Story to Life
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The Psychological Humanities Manifesto: An Interview with Mark Freeman
Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs
Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Mad in America, the Biopsychosocial Model, and Psychiatric History
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A Playground for Predators-Diane Dimond on The Abuses of Guardianship
May Cause Side Effects–Radical Acceptance and Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: An Interview with Brooke Siem
Branding Diseases: Ray Moynihan on How Drug Companies Market Psychiatric Conditions
How Mad Studies and the Psychological Humanities are Changing Mental Health: An Interview with Narrative Psychiatrist Bradley Lewis
Embracing the Shadow—Charlie Morley on Lucid Dreaming as Therapy
Family Panel Discussion – Supporting a Child, Teen, or Young Person in Crisis
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The Radical Politics of Madness-Micha Frazer-Carroll
Can Psychosocial Disability Decolonize Mental Health? A Conversation with Luis Arroyo and Justin Karter
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