[A study published in Clinical Psychological Science last year similarly concluded: “The increases in new media screen activities and the decreases in nonscreen activities may explain why depression and suicide increased among US adolescents since 2010.” ]
So many disturbed adolescents are not helped by a dysfunctional mental health system in the United States.
I was pleased to see a few books written by honest and competent psychiatrists on the corruption of American psychiatry . They write about the social crime of 50 years of " de-institutionalization ". About the assumption that DRUGS - with often hazardous side effects- can " control " the nation's mentally ill.
Even if some compassionate psychiatrists take an interest in some homeless or " lost souls " most of them operate within the framework of bourgeois ideology : no, there is nothing wrong with THE SYSTEM which destroys so many minds so early in life. Imagine SCIENCE incapable of questioning ANY assumption ?
A rare bird like psychiatrist Robert Lindner questioned the" 11th Commandment " of American society in the 1950s : in a book titled " Must You Conform " and in Lindner's study " Rebel without a Cause " - later made into the iconic James Dean movie.
How can the schools fight " bullying " when THAT is the very essence of the capitalist social order ?
I was reminded of this whenever I heard the Donald Trump of " The Apprentice " demolish a contestant : " You're fired ! "
Every two bit " boss " in the capitalist work place is a certified " bully ". Not THE BOSS -not THE JOB- is good for your mental and physical health.
[ “Donald Trump personifies a modern-day, extremely brash Jay Gatsby, clawing feverishly for that elusive ‘green light’ at the end of Daisy Buchanan’s beckoning dock. ] QUOTE
In a way the whole nation is experiencing-after years of Great Recession and the endless phony War on Terrorism- the emotional equivalent of F. Scott Fitzgerald's " Crackup ". How many readers know that this young author in the Roaring Twenties had SOCIALIST leanings ? After all, J. Gatsby was a fake and a fraud redeemed only by the " vision of Daisy ".
So many disturbed adolescents are not helped by a dysfunctional mental health system in the United States.
I was pleased to see a few books written by honest and competent psychiatrists on the corruption of American psychiatry . They write about the social crime of 50 years of " de-institutionalization ". About the assumption that DRUGS - with often hazardous side effects- can " control " the nation's mentally ill.
Even if some compassionate psychiatrists take an interest in some homeless or " lost souls " most of them operate within the framework of bourgeois ideology : no, there is nothing wrong with THE SYSTEM which destroys so many minds so early in life. Imagine SCIENCE incapable of questioning ANY assumption ?
A rare bird like psychiatrist Robert Lindner questioned the" 11th Commandment " of American society in the 1950s : in a book titled " Must You Conform " and in Lindner's study " Rebel without a Cause " - later made into the iconic James Dean movie.
How can the schools fight " bullying " when THAT is the very essence of the capitalist social order ?
I was reminded of this whenever I heard the Donald Trump of " The Apprentice " demolish a contestant : " You're fired ! "
Every two bit " boss " in the capitalist work place is a certified " bully ". Not THE BOSS -not THE JOB- is good for your mental and physical health.
[ “Donald Trump personifies a modern-day, extremely brash Jay Gatsby, clawing feverishly for that elusive ‘green light’ at the end of Daisy Buchanan’s beckoning dock. ] QUOTE
In a way the whole nation is experiencing-after years of Great Recession and the endless phony War on Terrorism- the emotional equivalent of F. Scott Fitzgerald's " Crackup ". How many readers know that this young author in the Roaring Twenties had SOCIALIST leanings ? After all, J. Gatsby was a fake and a fraud redeemed only by the " vision of Daisy ".
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