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We live in a society that valorises speech and treats silence as a harm to be broken. In mental health discourse, this assumption runs especially deep. Silence is medicalised as a symptom, pathologised as a cause, and targeted by campaigns urging people to open up. Silence in Mood Disorders challenges this consensus, arguing that the dominant understanding of silence in mental illness is not... Read more
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Biography
Dan Degerman is Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bristol. His research interests lie at the intersection of mental health, emotion, and politics. He is the author of Political Agency and the Medicalisation of Negative Emotions (EUP, 2022) and editor of The Politics of Negative Emotions (BUP, 2023).
