Andy wrote:
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> In the following I'm particularly interested in the relationship
> between social atomization in the US (with the broader background of
> Western individualism) and how mental illness gets handled. That is,
> why are Yanks so crazy?
What is the evidence for the U.S. being any more sociaooly atomized than any other capitalist nation? And what is the evidence that Yanks are any more apt to go "crazy" [sic] than in habitants of othere nations? And what is the evidence for equating "individualism" with "the west"?
I am sceptical of all three equations, and if they do not hold, then any social and/or pscychological analysis based on them is mere speculation.
Carrol