Get the latest tech news

For those who hear voices, the ‘broken brain’ explanation is harmful

For those who hear voices, the ‘broken brain’ explanation is harmful. Psychiatry must embrace new meaning-making frameworks

Along these lines, the journalist Jean Guerrero writing in Wired in 2018 described TIs as the prophets of the information era, and the proverbial ‘canaries in the coal mine’, who offer a dire warning about the reality of constant electronic surveillance. The documentary film Crazywise(2016) tells the story of Gogo Ekhaya Esima, a Brooklyn activist who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, but who rejected her label, returned to her ancestral roots, and became a Sangoma traditional healer and peer counsellor. My dad’s fears soon escalated into the belief that my mother was a government spy, his doctor had inserted a tracking device into his anus, and TheWashington Post was reporting on his activities in the Sports section (on the pretext of describing a rather marginal baseball player).

Get the Android app