“Persuading people they have more power than they do and ignoring the very real social barriers to attainment primes them for self-blame when reality fails to deliver. The worst extremes of phoney empowerment, argues Frayne, can be found in the trite aphorisms of the self-help industry, where popular psychologists ascribe to us almost magical abilities to alter circumstances despite the harsh realities constraining us. In a world where problems like disadvantage, unemployment and work-related distress are so socially embedded, downplaying the very real obstacles to opportunity is regularly experienced as yet another form of punishment, yet another form of blaming and shaming the individual.” WorkEmpowermentWorkersHealthcarePsychoanalysisPsychotherapySocial Care Book:Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis Source: Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
“What we need is a profound rethinking of the nature of suffering itself, and what it is trying to highlight and ask us to change. We need to repoliticise emotional discontent in the minds of teachers, parents and policy-makers, rather than continue reducing it to dysfunctions that allegedly reside within the self. We need to acknowledge that suffering also reflects family/socio/political dynamics we would do well to better acknowledge and address.” SufferingMental HealthTherapyHealthcarePsychotherapyNeoliberalismDepoliticisation Book:Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis Source: Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis