1st Edition

Silence in Mood Disorders A Philosophical Investigation

By Dan Degerman Copyright 2027
183 Pages
by Routledge

We live in a society that valorises speech and treats silence as a harm to be broken. This assumption runs especially deep in mental health discourse, where silence is both medicalised — as a symptom and as a cause — and targeted by campaigns urging people to open up. Silence in Mood Disorders challenges the dominant understanding of silence in mental illness, arguing that... 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 (2022) and editor of The Politics of Negative Emotions (2023).