Mental Health Diagnoses Are Capitalist Constructs
Micha Frazer-Carroll
Your experience is real. But the way we label it is influenced by systems of power.
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Micha Frazer-Carroll
Micha Frazer-Carroll is a writer and journalist who has worked for gal-dem and the Independent.
She is the author of Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health, out now from Pluto.
Articles
Mental Healthcare Often Isn’t Care at All
Micha Frazer-Carroll
For many, it’s just state punishment.
Yes, Mental Health Counts As Disability
Micha Frazer-Carroll
Just as our society is constructed around people whose ‘physical’ bodies work a certain way, it is also built to centre people who think, feel and act a certain way.