Keyword: Wellness Industry

The Wellness Syndrome: The Tragic Shift from Social Change to Individual Transformation

Picture: Bernard Chiro Video Feeling ashamed for not being happier? On an endless quest to transform yourself? Does our collective fixation with psychological and physical health actually verge on the pathological? Leading academics Carl Cederström, André Spicer and Renata Salecl gather to explore how wellness has become an unhealthy obsession in western societies, and how living ‘well’ has become synonymous with being morally good. They argue that visions of social change have been...