Critiquing Biomedical Approaches to Mental Health Issues and Trauma
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Psychiatry cannot solve broad social and economic problems that give rise to mental health issues; it focuses too narrowly on the individual biological body.
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Liberal conceptual frameworks baked into psychiatry fail to properly situate the social components connected to one's condition.
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Trauma and mental illness have complex historical and political roots that biomedicine oversimplifies via concepts like "traumatic literalism."
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The idea that early childhood interventions could solve societal issues like mass incarceration relies on racist, biologically determinist logic.
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The Democrats offer no meaningful solutions; the Left must build real power and provide alternate conceptual vocabularies and modes of care.