<https://psyche.co/ideas/lets-avoid-talk-of-chemical-imbalance-its-people-in-distress?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b16ae6427a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_16_05_40&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-b16ae6427a-70344581>https://psyche.co/ideas/lets-avoid-talk-of-chemical-imbalance-its-people-in-distress Joseph E Davisis research professor of sociology and chair of the Picturing the Human Colloquy at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. His latest book is <https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo48408677.html>Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery (2020). www.peoplewho.org