Empire of Madness

An urgent rethinking of the Western approach to mental health, which treats the symptoms rather than the exploitative systems causing our distress—by a Rhodes Scholar and Harvard Medical School physician-anthropologist—offering lessons from the rest of the world. In Empire of Madness , Dr. Khameer Kidia offers a re-evaluation of mental health in the Global North, where the answer to the structural causes of mental distress, like racism and economic inequality, has been to medicate the symptoms r