Sedated

Resumen del libro

In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. This is an increase of over 500% since 1980 and the numbers continue to grow. Yet, despite this prescription epidemic, levels of mental illness of all types have actually increased in number and severity.

Using a wealth of studies, interviews with experts, and detailed analysis, Dr James Davies argues that this is because we have fundamentally mischaracterised the problem. Rather than viewing most mental distress as an understandable reaction to wider societal problems, we have embraced a medical model which situates the problem solely within the sufferer and their brain. Urgent and persuasive, Sedated systematically examines why this individualistic view of mental illness has been promoted by successive governments and big business - and why it is so misplaced and dangerous.

Biografía del autor

James Davies es autor, ilustrador y padre de un gato en Bristol. Se graduó de la Universidad del Oeste de Inglaterra en 2009 como primero de su clase. Durante sus estudios recibió un premio de Macmillan que lo recomendaba x{0026} x0201C;ampliamentex{0026} x0201D;. En 2019 fue uno de los finalistas del premio de Gales para Ilustrador del Año. Sus atrevidas ilustraciones están influidas por caricaturas viejas y extrañas, pinturas rupestres y la ansiedad.