A Political Mind – Book Launch
Book ticketsOrganised by:
British Psychoanalytical Society (incorporating the Institute of Psychoanalysis)
Description
Hybrid – In person at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and Online
Recording available for 1 week
Prof Wilkinson brings us up to date on the important themes of his book, The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone (2009), was a hugely important book by Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson, it highlighted the “pernicious effects that inequality has on societies: eroding trust, increasing anxiety and illness, (and) encouraging excessive consumption”.
It suggests that health and social problems: physical and mental health, drug abuse, education, imprisonment, obesity, social mobility, violence and child wellbeing, outcomes are significantly worse in more unequal countries, whether rich or poor. Prof Wilkinson will bring us up-to date with his thinking.
