Thanks for a great article. I've worked in the mental health industry and it is
first and foremost an outlet for the pharmaceutical industry. Like all
commodified American "medicine" it is focused on treating symptoms rather than
causes and mostly ignores the larger realities that shape our psyc
I have been in and out of shrink-o-therapy on and off--though, except for
medication that has gotten me through the nightmare of working life in recent
years--more off than on or much of my adult life. There has never been any
question of "curing" me of "neurosis" or "psychosis"--where it has su
I am a retired psychotherapist in New Zealand and strangely I found the
whole article somewhat refreshing at first sight. The profession does not
often get such marxist attention. BUT. There is a battle for the psyche
in the mental health professions. Under capitalism the bourgeois practices
and
https://www.cpusa.org/article/mourn-or-organize/
Mourn? Or organize?
Michael James
Goin’ crazy? Thinking about seeing a shrink? Be careful! Mental health
professionals are complete lackeys in service to capitalism.
Karl Marx wrote that any psychology that ignores economics, class struggle, and
