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Mainstream, Vol 63 No 46 November 15, 2025

Review of Christopher Dole, Living On: Psychiatry and the Future of Disaster in Turkey | Andrew J. Bielecki

Saturday 15 November 2025

[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEW[/blanc][/fond noir]

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Living On: Psychiatry and the Future of Disaster in Turkey

by Christopher Dole

Stanford University Press
2025. 312 pp.
(cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-4177-8
(paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-4251-5

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Reviewed by Andrew J. Bielecki (Columbia University)

What does it mean to live through the end of your world? Across the world, humanity has endured one natural disaster after another, some with truly apocalyptic manifestations. Even so, some societies have seen the End more than once. Christopher Dole