Overview
Reconceptualizing Mental Illness in the Viral Age: Souls in the Machine reframes the pop-culture milieu of the current state of mental illness and mental wellness in the post-COVID era. The profound psychological trauma left in the wake of the neuro-exhaustion engendered by this explosive epoch has created the perfect atmosphere, cybersphere, for another historical 'Great Awakening'. Previously, infectious ideas infrequently led to moral and psychological upheaval. However, with mass, social, and popular media now comprising the psychosocial milieu from which emerge today's social contagions the speed, ease, and facility with which ideas infect and commandeer the cybersphere is so profound as to be mentally devastating. Techno-psychopathologies have hyper-evolved. In an age of overwhelming distraction and irresistible technology, the one certainty amid the chaos is that the current standard of conceptualizing mental illness, through checklist diagnostics, has been outdated since the digital era began. The human mind is now fundamentally different.
Full Product Details
Author: Jr., Elliott B. Martin
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Edition: Unabridged edition
ISBN: 9781036405038
ISBN 10: 1036405036
Pages: 257
Publication Date: 04 July 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
Elliott B. Martin, Jr., is Director of Medical Psychiatry at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, part of the Mass General Brigham integrated healthcare system in Boston, USA. He is also an award-winning Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. He is board-certified in general psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, and addiction medicine. Prior to his return to medical school, he was a linguist and philologist. He is the author of Reconceptualizing Mental Illness in The Digital Age: Ghosts in the Machine (Cambridge Scholars 2021) and The Virtuous Physician: A Brief Medical History of Moral Inquiry from Hippocrates to COVID-19 (Ethics International 2023). He has published over 50 articles in academic and popular journals. In addition to research papers, he has written on philosophical and moral issues in medicine, and on the history of medicine and psychiatry. He has published translations of ancient medical texts, and critical commentaries on current issues in psychiatry and medicine. He has been a regular contributor to the Psychiatric Times and Op-Med.
