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therapy culture
Social Inclusion Unit? Leave me out
The Australian,
14 January 2012
Far from being a desirable objective, social inclusion is an unusually vapid idea.
The strong rise from the ashes
The Australian,
10 September 2011
In the immediate aftermath of the destruction of the World Trade Centre, an army of mental health professionals flooded into New York in search of distressed and traumatised victims.
Dwelling on past injuries only distracts us from present and future possibilities
The Australian,
2 July 2011
The project of rewriting history is motivated by the impulse of reconstructing Australia's cultural identity.
Abandon all responsibility ye who are hooked on sex addiction
The Australian,
18 June 2011
There was a time when Ryan Giggs's bedroom adventures would have been described as promiscuous. Today, they are likelier to be represented as a marker for a disease.
Specialist pleading
The Australian,
2 September 2009
One of the most influential contemporary cultural myths is that our era is characterised by the end of deference.
Medical labels are slapped on to rambunctious kids
The Australian,
15 August 2009
Why am I not surprised to discover the number of Australian schoolchildren diagnosed with psychological or emotional disorders is increasing at a dramatic rate?
After Jade, whose death will we watch next?
spiked,
23 March 2009
The salacious reports of Jade Goody’s physical demise confirm that death is the new sex: a form of voyeuristic entertainment.
A quack’s way to build the recovery
Sunday Times,
15 March 2009
The government plan to offer recession therapy just makes victims of us.
Phobias: in Greek
monkie magazine,
1 September 2008
There is something rotten in the trend to label political or cultural views as 'phobias' that must be treated. Essay republished in Issue 5 of the Greek bi-monthly magazine monkie.
Pursuit of happiness is personal
The Australian,
7 August 2008
Wellbeing crusaders have turned a private emotion into a public policy issue.
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