Unshrunk: Breaking Free From Psychiatry
Ultimately, Delano’s message is both sobering and empowering: true healing begins when people are treated not as ‘broken brains’, but as whole human beings.
Ultimately, Delano’s message is both sobering and empowering: true healing begins when people are treated not as ‘broken brains’, but as whole human beings.
While the show may have a compelling narrative, it doesn’t seem particularly useful for understanding violence in contemporary society.
We have become accustomed to living in a nation where people who do speak out, protest and demand better for others risk being called a “river of filth” or worse.
There seems to be no stopping the counterrevolution at this point, as the spat upon and disrespected middle voice of cultural normalization claws its way back from humiliation back into the mainstream of cultural experience.
James O’Keefe and his small team have done something remarkable: they have taken on the decade’s biggest story, given it form, and preserved the humanity of its subjects. It is worth watching.
His ideas could be applied to our own depressed rural zones – that’s the strength of Vance’s writing – it’s not just for Kentucky or Ohio.