Toward An Ecosystemic Model Of Distress

Rethinking Mental Health Beyond The Medical Gaze

For more than a century, Western models of mental health have been shaped by a reductive idea; distress lives inside the individual. Mental illness has been framed as a disruption of brain chemistry (despite being debunked); pathology is located within neural tissue; a disordered mind is imagined as a malfunctioning organ. This biomedical gaze has becom…