Nicole M. Luongo
1 min readOct 8, 2020

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This is largely due to the fact that psychiatry (and later, the “psy disciplines” more broadly) emerged as a way to disappear the unemployed into institutions alongside economic crises in Europe. The disease paradigm in relation to mental health de-politicizes social problems, and as you’ve so beautifully outlined, exacerbates them in the process.

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Nicole M. Luongo
Nicole M. Luongo

Written by Nicole M. Luongo

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