Mental Illness as a Crisis of Meaning in Modern Society

Modern society has seen a massive spike in mental illness. Why could this be? We will be exploring the characteristics of modernity and associate it with the rise of mental illness through the crisis of meaning in modern society. Modernity is characterised by a sense of disorientation. The mass neurosis of modern times is the “unheard cry for meaning”. ⭐ Become a Patron (exclusive content): 📺 YouTube Member (exclusive content): 🛒 Official Merch: ☕ Donate a Coffee: 📘 PayPal: 📨 Subscribe to newsletter: 📚 My personal library: 🎨 Access transcript and artwork gallery: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading ▶ Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl ▶ Man and His Symbols – Carl Jung ▶ The Myth of Sisyphus – Albert Camus ▶ The Gay Science – Friedrich Nietzsche ▶ Tribe – Sebastian Junger ▶ The Myth of Mental Illness – Thomas Szasz 🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: ▶ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📺 Odysee ➔ @eternalised 📺 Rumble ➔ 🐦 Twitter ➔ 📷 Instagram ➔ 📘 Facebook ➔ 🎧 Podcast ➔ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps 0:00 Introduction: Modern Society and Mental Illness 1:50 The Myth of Mental Illness 3:00 Modern Society: Freedom and Responsibility 5:14 Modern Society: Death of God 6:34 The Existential Vacuum 8:20 The Hero Journey 9:13 What Actually Takes Place Inside the Mentally Ill? 11:45 Modern Society: Lack of a Tribe 14:52 Modern Society: Psychic Dissociation ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📝 Sources Roberts, M. (2007). Modernity, mental illness and the crisis of meaning. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 14(3), 277-281. Sass, L. A. (1994). Civilized madness: schizophrenia, self-consciousness and the modern mind. History of the human sciences, 7(2), 83-120. Littlewood, R. (1995). Abstracts & Reviews: Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature and Thought by LOUIS A. SASS, PH.D. 1992. New York: Basic Books. Cloth: , Canadian, ISBN 0-465-04312-7, x 595 pages. Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review, 32(1), 78-86. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎶 Music used 1. They Got Away – Documentary Music – Music 2. Anguish – Kevin MacLeod 3. Evening Fall Harp – Kevin MacLeod 4. Thunderbird – Kevin MacLeod 5. Wounded – Kevin MacLeod Subscribe to Music Subscribe to Kevin MacLeod () Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. Thanks for watching, I appreciate it! #modernity #society #crisis