“Tim Kasser: ‘The heyday of humanistic psychology was in the 1960s and 1970s, when Keynes dominated. But since the rise of neo-liberalism from the 1980s, we’ve seen an influx of cognitive behavioural approaches and psychiatric drugs – technologies that put the cause of the problem right between your ears. The therapies our governments now want all focus on internal not external reform. They don’t see suffering as a call to change external circumstances for the good of our development.” SufferingPsychologyCapitalismTherapyPsychiatryNeoliberalismKeynesCbt Book:Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis Source: Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
“For the diagnostic categories for which drugs are far and away the first-line form of treatment, such as the ‘mood disorders’, ‘eating disorders’, ‘psychotic disorders’ and ‘anxiety disorders’, an average of 88% of all DSM-IV panel members had drug company financial ties.” PsychiatryDsm Book:Cracked: The Unhappy Truth about Psychiatry Source: Cracked: The Unhappy Truth about Psychiatry