Postmodern Madness on Campus

1. Postmodern Madness on Campus Bradley Lewis, MD, PhD New York University

2. Postmodern Challenges • Rise of neoliberalism and transnational capital, erosion of democratic process, fragmentation of meaning and subjectivity, commercialization of everyday life, widespread debt and addiction to consumption, growing inequality, intractable unemployment, erosion of middle class, increasing competition for limited jobs, alienated workforce, and catastrophic risk from financial collapse, nuclear or biological weapons, environmental destruction, or epidemic spread of infections.

3. Campus Response • In a 2010 survey of students by the American College Health Association, 45.6 percent of students surveyed reported feeling that things were hopeless and 30.7 percent reported feeling so depressed that it was difficult to function during the past 12 months

8. Metaphor,Plot, and Character

9. Metaphors and Models of Madness PATHOLOGICAL Biopsychiatry Psychoanalytic Cognitive Behavioral Interpersonal Family Biopsychosocial Existential/humanistic GENERATIVE Political Creative Spiritual

10. Memoirs of Depression

11. William Styron

12. Virginia Heffernan Chase Twitchell Russell Banks

13. Lesley Dormen

14. David Budbill

15. Joshua Wolf Shenk

17. Process of Recovery Research

18. Navigating Multiplicity and the Sick Role Breakthrough Breakdown