Sonia Zawitkowski

In what sounds like a dystopia but is in fact all too real, our human suffering is flattened and repackaged as a “mental health crisis” by naive professionals and buzzword-shilling experts. By unraveling the heretofore ignored history of our mental health culture, two Canadian filmmakers reveal the darker side of our humanitarian impulses, and dare to ask whether they could actually be fuelling the mental health crisis machine.

In what sounds like a dystopia but is in fact all too real, our human suffering is flattened and repackaged as a “mental health crisis” by naive professionals and buzzword-shilling experts. By unraveling the heretofore ignored history of our mental health culture, two Canadian filmmakers reveal the darker side of our humanitarian impulses, and dare to ask whether they could actually be fuelling the mental health crisis machine.