‘I’m more woke than 90% of the population’: Freddie deBoer knows his new book about psychiatry and disability will piss you off—and welcomes it
Source: Fortune ·
"All in Your Head" argues illness labels have become identities and it should be easier to commit the ill. It began as "the gentrification of disability."
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Fredrik (Freddie) deBoer met three mothers who told him they had spent years keeping their adult children, all with severe schizophrenia, alive and out of institutions. He spent about two hours with them while recording a podcast, and what stuck with him was their exhaustion. He said they were thankful for his controversial statements because, as they put it, “we’re not allowed to weigh in on this stuff.” “It just offended me so deeply,” deBoer told Fortune from his home office in Connecticut. That conversation led to a 2022 essay, “The Gentrification of Disability,” and that has turned into a book, “All in Your Head: Illness as Identity, Trauma as Fashion, and the Desire to be Disordered,” which comes out Oct. 27 from Simon & Schuster. It attacks the anti-psychiatry movement, trauma culture and the casual use of disability and diagnosis labels, while also tracing how deinstitutionalization left the most severely ill to homelessness and jail. “I did this to pick this fight because I…
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