The depsychiatrisation of mental illness

Using as an example the mental health mass screening and treatment programmes instituted in some US states, Joseph Dumit describes how the western world has arrived at a state of ‘dependent normality’ in which being diagnosed and dependent on medication is rendered ordinary, largely through the marketing activities of the pharmaceutical industry, which seeks constantly to expand its market by defining at‐risk populations as broadly as possible, and through persuading the public that all risks must be combated with drugs.