Trauma Industrial Complex: How Oversharing Became a Product in a Digital World

The new book from the Orwell Prize-Winning author of Poverty Safari and The Social Distance Between Us

Today, trauma permeates media, from music and television to films and books – my own included. While the increasing openness is welcome, I’ve observed that this rise has been accompanied by a parallel explosion of disinformation and sometimes harmful guidance about how to deal with personal trauma.

In Trauma Industrial Complex, I ask the question: How did we get here? And are the stories w...