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I think that it is highly debatable whether or not "anxiety" and "depression" are on the rise, or whether this is an illusory product of our emerging definitions of such things, our increasingly clinical interpretation of them, and our developing understanding of the chemistry and mechanisms of the human brain (of course, I suspect that with this final comment you will predictably accuse me of being a scientific or materialistic ideologue who is committed to the idea of "absolute progress").
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Come on, are you serious? This begins with a pretty obvious ideological postulate; the mind can be best understand as a mechanical and chemical organ. That's materialist ideology right there. What is really happening is the alternatives to biomedical views of the brain, such as theology or psychoanalysis, are being subsumed into the materialist world-view without any perspective on the purpose of the alternative or what it means for a general understanding of humanity.