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Ashley Frawley

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Ashley Frawley is senior editor of Compact, a visiting research fellow at Mathias Corvinus Collegium Brussels, and visiting researcher at the University of Kent. She previously served as associate professor of sociology at Swansea University.

She is the author of two books, Semiotics of Happiness and Significant Emotions. Her writing has appeared in UnHerd, The New Statesman, First Things, Spiked, and Sublation.


  • After Therapy

    14 November 2026

    What is the space for genuine illness in ‘mental health’ discourse? Can we still rely on Freud’s distinction between “neurotic despair” and ordinary human misery? Do we need more or less therapy, and to what private, social, or political end? 

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