Joseph E. Davis is Research Professor of Sociology and Director of the Picturing the Human Colloquy of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia.
Contemporary life leaves people feeling unworthy and inadequate. We need to think of ourselves not as objects or projects but as irreducible persons deserving and capable of love.
Loneliness defies easy generalizations. It is not so much an absence of others, as a quality of relations that are “relationless”—that feel alien, unresponsive, superficial.A distinguished panel has recommended anxiety screening for adults in primary care without any direct evidence of benefit. What is going on here?
As the ways to be inadequate multiply, so, too, does our dependence on a myriad of specialists in living. We need to reclaim our experience and ourselves.Young people are churning out videos showing “symptoms” of mental disorders and encouraging viewer self-diagnosis. Intended as empowering, they instead reinforce burdens.
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