Trauma Industrial Complex

*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 we re telling ourselves liberating us or keeping us trapped? In this revealing and deeply personal book, I ll pull back the curtain, sharing the hard-won wisdom I ve gained from the events brought on by telling my own story.Praise for Darren McGarvey: An Orwell for today's poor The Times The standout, authentic voice of a generation Herald McGarvey is a rarity: a working-class writer who has fought to make the middle-class world hear what he has to say Nick Cohen, Guardian