Eric Reinhart
Physician|Psychoanalyst|Political anthropologist of public health, law, & abolition; racial, psychiatric, & aesthetic ideas.
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I often take care of people after suicide attempts. When they explain why they tried to die, a large proportion say they could no longer see โthe pointโ in life. โThereโs no meanin...
Which would make America safer? a) continuing to spend ~$280B per year on police, prosecution, and prisons b) using that money to build a national community health & safety worke...
What many psychiatric patients need is not a drug but community, economic support, and sense of purpose. โBut we canโt prescribe that,โ itโs said. Why not? Why canโt we build commu...
When pre-pandemic Americans had a cold, most carried on with their lives as usual. So long as they felt good enough, theyโd go maskless to their jobs, gym, theater, bar, restaurant...