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GORDON PARSONS recommends an entertaining account of the years between Germany’s defeat in WWI and Hitler’s seizure of power
Market-driven ills of a sick society
Steve Andrew recommends Paul Verhaege’s study of how rising levels of mental sickness are induced by the neoliberal agenda
MIGUEL YOSHIDA explains the evolution and influence of the Cuban Casa De Las Americas in joining culture to the revolutionary struggle
ANDY HEDGECOCK is charmed by a skilful adaptation of Tove Jansson’s lyrical portrait of three generations of a family, overcoming grief
ALEX HALL treads warily through a messy, dialectical struggle fought in the mundane machinery of driving licences, criminal law, and birth registries
MICHAL BONCZA, FIONA O’CONNOR, JAMES WALSH and ANGUS REID review Atlas of Disappearance, Love Me Tender, Bouchra, and This Tempting Madness
Flitting between myth and the modern world, Medusa is determined to steer clear of human affairs. When her resolve crumbles, the result is petrifying in every sense
What About Me? The Struggle For Identity in a Market-based Society, by Paul Verhaeghe (Scribe, £12.99)
Very much in the tradition of psychoanalysis, Paul Verhaeghe’s earlier books undoubtedly owed more to the likes of Freud and Lacan than to the ideas of, say, Marx.
Yet years of working as a clinician eventually convinced him that the current tidal wave of mental illness, manifesting itself in spiralling levels of stress, anxiety and depression, owes more to contemporary changes in work and society than it does to fixed, individualistic and biological reasons.
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