Political Agency and the Medicalisation of Negative Emotions

Argues that the medicalisation of negative emotions is reshaping our ability to act politically Provides the first sustained analysis of how the increasing tendency to think and talk about negative emotions in terms of mental disorder affects our ability to take political actionPresents, analyses and compares case studies of individuals who have faced obstacles related to perceptions of their emotional and mental fitness for public life, ranging from psychiatric service-user activists to Brexit