Mental-Healthism: Do we worry too much about our mental health?

There has been a huge rise in personal and professional diagnoses of mental health problems and mental disorders seemingly relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, rates of mental disorder and mental health problems have increased massively since the medicalisation of madness in the nineteenth century and the cultural sanctification of the ‘self’ in the twentieth century. But is there a genuine pandemic of psychological suffering or an undue amplification of everyday difficulties which can be described as ‘mental-healthism’?

• Tutor: Peter Morrall BA MSc PGCE PhD
• Term: Autumn
• Day: Saturday
• Start Date: 13 November 2021
• Time: 10am-1pm
• No. of weeks: 1
• Full fee: £25

This course will be delivered via Zoom. Students joining the course will need access to a computer, laptop or tablet with a microphone (essential) and a webcam (desirable) as well as a reliable broadband connection.

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