Hans Skott-Myhre's guest appearances

Hans Skott-Myhre

Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health

This Is Not A Pipe

Alfie Bown

Amy Allen

Meredith Broussard

Kelly Brogan

Zach Bush

Johann Hari

Robert Moses

Will Davies

Darcia Narvaez

Jonathan Cohn

Lucy Johnstone

David Healy

Jessica Taylor

Peter Breggin

Nicole Beurkens

OwlTail

Hans Skott-Myhre is a Professor of Human Services at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. Over the last 50 years, he has worked within a wide variety of human service settings, including residential homes, community health centers, inpatient psychiatric units, homeless youth shelters, transitional living programs, and prisons. About two decades ago, he transitioned into academia, where he now does research at the intersections of human services, psychology, cultural theory, and literature. His recently published book titled “Post-Capitalist Subjectivity in Literature and Anti-Psychiatry: Reconceptualizing the Self Beyond Capitalism” explored how we might be different types of people if we didn't live in a capitalist society. The book draws on Marxist and post-Marxist theory and presents a nuanced analysis of antipsychiatrists' professional writings, including Franco Basaglia and R. D. Laing, as well as the work of fiction writers, including Franz Kafka and Gabriel García Márquez. Through this analysis, Skott-Myhre identifies alternative conceptualizations of self and community that take us beyond capitalist subjectivity.

<p>Hans Skott-Myhre is a Professor of Human Services at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. Over the last 50 years, he has worked within a wide variety of human service settings, including residential homes, community health centers, inpatient psychiatric units, homeless youth shelters, transitional living programs, and prisons. About two decades ago, he transitioned into academia, where he now does research at the intersections of human services, psychology, cultural theory, and literature.</p> <p>His recently published book titled “<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10720537.2021.1992321?journalCode=upcy20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Post-Capitalist Subjectivity in Literature and Anti-Psychiatry: Reconceptualizing the Self Beyond Capitalism</a>” explored how we might be different types of people if we didn't live in a capitalist society. The book draws on Marxist and post-Marxist theory and presents a nuanced analysis of antipsychiatrists' professional writings, including Franco Basaglia and R. D. Laing, as well as the work of fiction writers, including Franz Kafka and Gabriel García Márquez. Through this analysis, Skott-Myhre identifies alternative conceptualizations of self and community that take us beyond capitalist subjectivity.</p>

Hans Skott-Myhre - Can Critiques of Psychiatry Help us Imagine a Post-Capitalist Future?

"Even if you're working against the cliff face of some of the darkest and most devastating genocidal movements in capitalism, the trick is to bring joy to your revolt."

David Fancy and Hans Skott-Myhre: Art as Revolt

"The definitions of youth over the last fifteen or twenty years are now frantically proliferating in order to try to keep up with the contradictions and antagonisms of what’s actually happening with young people, which is almost inarticulable now."

Hans Skott-Myhre: Youth and Subculture as Creative Force