On overmedicalisation and the crisis of authority.

Amber Trotter, practicing psychologist and an editor at Damage magazine, and George Hoare tell Alex about their co-written article in the print issue of Damage on "the pre-political".

• What is driving the explosion in mental health diagnoses? Why are people seeking diagnosis?

• How is it the product of the subjective and the purely scientific?

• Does capitalism make us ill? Is blaming 'capitalism' abstractly part of the problem?

• What is the crisis of authority? Whose authority?

• Can we solve pre-political problems with politics? And political problems with pre-political approaches?

Damage, Issue 5: The Pre-Political