"What is our psychiatric future?" with Nikolas Rose(OUR006)

This episode we're joined by notaed sociologist Nikolas Rose to discuss his 2018 book "Our Psychiatric Future" which explores how the "epidemic" of mental ill-health has been framed by policy, medical institutions and the media. Rose is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London where he is also co-director of the recently established Centre for Society and Mental Health. His many books include "Inventing Our Selves: Psychology, Power and Personhood" (1998, "Governing the Soul: The Shaping of the Private Self" (2nd edition, 1999), and co-author of "Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind" (2013). He is co-editor of "The Essential Foucault: Selections from Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984."