All in Your Head

Illness as Identity, Trauma as Fashion, and the Desire to be Disordered
A searing account of the ways in which mental health culture distorts our understanding of mental illness, abandons the severely ill, and threatens the lives of millions who desperately need care.
From the author of The Cult of Smart comes a searing account of the ways in which mental health culture and online discourse distort our understanding of mental illness, abandons the severely ill, and threatens the lives of millions who desperately need care.

Mental health culture in the 21st century is broken. After decades of influence from the anti-psychiatry movement, our conception of mental illness has become hopelessly romanticized, distorted by fictional depictions of madness that minimize the harms of debilitating conditions. Its become fashionable to insist that mental illness is socially constructed, politically imposed, or secretly