Psychophobia: Metamodernism, Psychosis, Agency, and Radical Freedom

This presentation examines society’s deep-seated fear of extreme mental states through the lens of existential psychoanalysis. It challenges the medicalization of distress, exposing the iatrogenic harm and systematic assault on interiority that too often define psychiatric intervention. Rather than pathologizing human experience, it argues for a psychophobia-free, phenomenological approach—one that honors lived experience, fosters radical agency, and recognizes the transformative potential of authentic human connection. In an era of metamodern uncertainty, might embracing the so-called pathological be the key to true freedom?

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