All In The Mind

On World Mental Health Day 2018 it's been good to see some of the major problems we face in this area getting a decent airing in the media. The recent report in The Lancet outlining a mental health crisis in every country in the world makes salutary reading. In an oddly coincidental way I happen to be reading Foucault's Madness and Civilisation at this time and, whilst I don't entirely buy Monsieur's F's thesis, there's a frequency of stabbing insight in the work that makes it a rightly distressing read. The notion that we're dealing with colossal human suffering doesn't bear thinking about which is why we must think about it.