Psychiatric disorder rose with industrial capitalism’s onset around 1750

Evidence

The psychological conflict raging within individuals — they themselves are at war — cannot but have casualties. One hidden, or at least naturalised, consequence of the rise of post-Fordism is that the “invisible plague” of psychiatric disorders that has spread, silently and stealthily, since around 1750 (i.e. the very onset of industrial capitalism), has reached a new level of acuteness in the last two decades. This is one more dimension of the Real that capitalist realism is constitutively unable to process. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1406

Categorization

• QUESTION: The 1750 origin claim for the psychiatric epidemic is worth chasing — what evidence or earlier argument (likely Foucault/Deleuze) anchors that date?
• SHARE: The specific date of c.1750 as the onset of a psychiatric ‘invisible plague’ tied to industrial capitalism is a striking tidbit for an interested party.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1406
• XREF: connects to: Bipolar disorder is the mental illness proper to capitalism’s interior — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 75; Anti-Psychiatry’s decline tracks capitalist realism’s rise — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2217; Industrial capitalism both produces inattention and pathologizes it — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 61 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Industrial capitalism both produces inattention and pathologizes it #expands (0.85) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 61
• Capitalism is symptomatic of a deeper civilizational disorder that Marxism fails to name #corroborates (0.80) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1427
• Capitalism is structurally bipolar, feeding on population mood cycles #expands (0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1409
• Neoliberal policy privatised stress into individual mental illness #expands (0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1601
• Industrial-era disorder itself spawned the modern city’s new order. #expands (0.75) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 323
• Capitalist societies socialize stress-producing conditions while privatizing their cost #expands (0.75) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 42
• Anti-Psychiatry’s decline tracks capitalist realism’s rise #expands (0.72) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2217