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MENTAL HEALTH

by Kenji
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The images above are from the searing Welsh film The Other Side of the Underneath.

I see mental illness as very much a collective as well as individual, a social as well as medical, problem, hence the inclusion of some films here that may raise eyebrows.

“many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of ‘unadjusted’ individuals, and not of a possible unadjustment of the culture itself” (Erich Fromm),

While a society may support and glorify...


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