#1292 Nima Bassiri: Capitalism, Psychiatry, and the Emergence of Pathological Value

Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Center. I'm your host, as always, Ricard Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Nima Basiri. He's a social theorist, historian, and philosopher of the human sciences, and associate professor at Duke University, where he teaches in the program in literature. Duke's interdisciplinary humanities and cultural studies program, and today We're going to talk about his book, Madness and Enterprise Psychiatry, Economic Reason and the Emergence of Pathological Value. So, Doctor Basiri, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you one. Thank you it's a pleasure to be here. Okay, so uh let me ask you first.

What is the premise and the main argument of your book before we get into details here? Yeah, thank you for asking and thanks for having me on the show. Um the a book is essentially a uh something of a kind of reprisal of the history of psychiatry. And one of the things that I

try to do in this book is to reimagine the very category of madness as something that is more than just a medical category and more than just a moral category, but something that in an economic category or an economic form quite literally. since its modern kind of outset. Um

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