The prominent belief at the dawn of the new millennium is that unhappiness is simply a biological condition to be remedied with the right balance of prescribed chemicals. There is still no commonly accepted acknowledgement of the severity of women’s dissatisfaction, of the inadequacy of consumer goods as the primary source of fulfillment, of the sense of being torn between family, independence, community, responsibility, passions. Psychiatry still encourages adaptation, not resistance, to poverty, racism and job exploitation. The goal is to chemically adjust the individual to the existing society, not to empower the individual to change society to provide themselves and those around them with a healthier, happier existence.
Women’s Psychology: Mental Illness as a Social Disease by Susan Williams, M.D. (Radical Women Publications)
Women’s Psychology: Mental Illness as a Social Disease by Susan Williams, M.D. (Radical Women Publications)
