Empty Suffering

Interdisciplinary in approach, this book offers an analysis of contemporary forms of suffering, including depression, anxiety, chronic pain and addiction, and the treatments commonly applied to them, considering whether certain treatments and therapies are contributory factors to the overall problem of contemporary suffering. It will appeal to scholars across the social sciences and humanities with interests in mental health and disorder, social theory and social pathologies.

Series: The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization (Routledge)

Further details: https://www.routledge.com/Empty-Suffering-A-Social-Phenomenology-of-Depression-Anxiety-and-Addiction/Sik/p/book/9781032045573

Review:

Aho, Kevin: Review of Domonkos Sik, Empty suffering: a social phenomenology of depression, anxiety, and addiction, London and New York: Routledge, 2022. Phenom Cogn Sci (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-022-09849-z