The Stranger Returns: The Politics of Mental Health and Nietzsche on Forgiving and Forgetting

CW: self-harm, suicide, clinical challenges to gender
transitioning

The final episode of Acid Horizon for 2023 is an informal
conversation between Craig and The Stranger (twitter: @4Q248).
Together we discuss the politics of mental health, Nietzsche
versus Psychoanalysis--and we indulge a little bit of playful
dreamwork at the end. Thank you for supporting us this
year!

Links to research referenced in the episode:

Why Depression Rates Are Higher Among Liberals: 
https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/why-depression-rates-are-higher-among-liberals


Mental Illness and the Left:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341609819_Mental_Illness_and_the_Left


Are liberals truly more depressed than conservatives?:
https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/05/31/mental-health-politics-liberal-conservative/


Contributing factors to suicide: Political, social, cultural and
economic:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091743521000827


Suicide rates tend to rise under Tory rule: 
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2002/sep/19/uk.conservatives


Right-wing governments 'increase suicide rates':
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2817-right-wing-governments-increase-suicide-rates/


Republicans Report Much Better Mental Health Than Others:
https://news.gallup.com/poll/102943/republicans-report-much-better-mental-health-than-others.aspx






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