A rethinking of the Western approach to mental health, which treats the symptoms rather than the exploitative systems causing our distress, offering lessons from the rest of the world.
Ambitious but uneven ... Provocative ... Kidia’s conclusions are compelling, but by now they are somewhat familiar ... There are so many threads in Empire of Madness that it is no wonder Kidia cannot tie them all together.
Deeply researched ... Current treatments rely on medication and talk therapy, which the author asserts are sometimes helpful but largely insufficient. It’s a complex story to tell, and it requires patience and an open mind in the reader. Every time you think the author is going off on a tangent, he succeeds in connecting things back to mental health. An ambitious take on the diagnosis and treatment of mental health issues viewed through a cross-cultural lens.
