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Reconceptualizing Mental Illness in the Viral Age

Souls in the Machine

By: Elliott B. Martin, Jr.

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In the post-COVID viral age, social contagions and irresistible technology create new techno-psychopathologies. As the cybersphere rewires our minds, the checklist diagnostics used to define mental illness have become obsolete. The human mind is fundamentally different.

Reconceptualizing Mental Illness in the Viral Age: Souls in the Machine reframes the pop-culture milieu of the current state of mental illness and mental wellness…

Reconceptualizing Mental Illness in the Viral Age: Souls in the Machine reframes the pop-culture milieu of the current state of mental illness and mental wellness in the post-COVID era. The profound psychological trauma left in the wake of the neuro-exhaustion engendered by this explosive epoch has created the perfect atmosphere, cybersphere, for another historical ‘Great Awakening’. Previously, infectious ideas infrequently led to moral and psychological upheaval. However, with mass, social, and popular media now comprising the psychosocial milieu from which emerge today’s social contagions the speed, ease, and facility with which ideas infect and commandeer the cybersphere is so profound as to be mentally devastating. Techno-psychopathologies have hyper-evolved. In an age of overwhelming distraction and irresistible technology, the one certainty amid the chaos is that the current standard of conceptualizing mental illness, through checklist diagnostics, has been outdated since the digital era began. The human mind is now fundamentally different.

Elliott B. Martin, Jr., is Director of Medical Psychiatry at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, part of the Mass General Brigham integrated healthcare system in Boston, USA. He is also an award-winning Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. He is board-certified in general psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, and addiction medicine. Prior to his return to medical school, he was a linguist and philologist. He is the author of Reconceptualizing Mental Illness in The Digital Age: Ghosts in the Machine (Cambridge Scholars 2021) and The Virtuous Physician: A Brief Medical History of Moral Inquiry from Hippocrates to COVID-19 (Ethics International 2023). He has published over 50 articles in academic and popular journals. In addition to research papers, he has written on philosophical and moral issues in medicine, and on the history of medicine and psychiatry. He has published translations of ancient medical texts, and critical commentaries on current issues in psychiatry and medicine. He has been a regular contributor to the Psychiatric Times and Op-Med.

Hardback

ISBN: 1-0364-0503-6
ISBN13: 978-1-0364-0503-8
Date of Publication: 2024-07-04

Paperback

ISBN: 1-0364-4638-7
ISBN13: 978-1-0364-4638-3
Date of Publication: 2025-03-31

Ebook

ISBN: 1-0364-0504-4
ISBN13: 978-1-0364-0504-5
Date of Publication: 2025-03-31

Categories: Health Science, Medicine, Psychiatry, Sociology, Medical History

Pages: 257

Subject Codes:

BIC: MMH, JFC, MBX
THEMA: MKL, JBCC, MBX

Pages: 257

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